Inv. 656
Crucifixion; Longinus piercing Christ's side; skull of Adam at the foot of the cross; cruciform halo.
Vöge 1900: French, 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Darmstadt and Munich 1999: Paris (?), last quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Style of the Kremsmünster Master
Object Condition
Missing: upper part and right side including Stephaton.
Provenance
Radowitz collection: acquired in 1856 by the Kunstkammer.
Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 112.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 45, pl. 55.
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, no. 48.
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