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Openwork triptych, with arches (triptyque ajouré) (Front (open))

Openwork triptych, with arches (triptyque ajouré) (Front (open))
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Subject
Religious. Passion.


Unknown location

S/n

Marquetry (alla certosina work; intarsia);wood;bone

Wing, left
Register 1: Christ and apostles.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane).
Centre panel
Register 1: Crucifixion; Virgin supported by one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist. Pietà with onlookers.
Register 2: Flagellation; whips. Angel praying. Carrying of the Cross.
Wing, right
Register 1: Unidentified miracle (?); Christ with apostle.
Register 2: Entombment.
Flamboyant gothic architecture; tracery; inhabited scrolls (rinceaux); dragons; row of blind arches; foliated decoration; heads in medallions.
Four Symbols of the Evangelists: eagle of saint John the Evangelist; ox of saint Luke, lion of saint Mark and angel of saint Matthew.
Angels in the gables; angels supporting a crowned unidentified coat of arms in the central gable.

Unpublished


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
In 1936, lent by the Symons Galleries during the 'Exhibition of European Art, 1450-1500', at the Brooklyn Museum.


Image

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