Inv. 96 C
Register 1: Last Judgement with Resurrection of the Dead (Christ in Glory); angels holding Instruments of the Passion (spear; nails; cross); Virgin Mary and saint John the Baptist kneeling; souls rising from their tombs under an arch (including a king and a bishop); angels blowing trumpets.
Register 2: Coronation of the Virgin; lion under Christ's feet; dragon under the Virgin's feet; two kneeling angels holding navettes and swinging censers; two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Pinnacles.
Supino 1898: France, end of the 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: 19th century.
Chiesi 2011: Germany (?), c. 1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Repairs where the hinges once were.
Comments
The right wing of this diptych is also in the Bargello collection (Inv. 95 C).
Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
U. Rossi, 'La Collezione Carrand al Museo Nazionale di Firenze', in Archivio Storico dell'arte II (1889), p. 16.
G. Sangiorgi, La Collection Carrand au Bargello (Rome, 1895), p. 12, no. 16.
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Florence, 1898), pp. 224-225, no. 95-96.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 283, n. 2.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 346-357.
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