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Pax (baiser de paix) (Back)

Pax (baiser de paix) (Back)
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Subject
Religious. Crucifixion.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 2875

Copper (frame);ivory

Height: 68 mm
Width: 51 mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; titulus; skull of Adam at the foot of the cross.
Crosshatched background.
Frame decorated with a cherub head.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Netherlands or Italy, 1st half of the 16th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Hidden by the frame. Handle.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the ivory panel.

Provenance
Collection of Osip Emmanuilovich Braz (b. 1873, d. 1936), Saint Petersburg. Transferred from the Gosudarstvennii Muzeinii Fond (GMF - State Museum Collection) to the Hermitage in 1933.

Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 142.


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