Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register (Front)

Panel, 1 register (Front)

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 156 C

Ivory;gilt wood (Virgin and child)

Height: 129mm
Width: 83mm

Virgin of the Rosary; standing Virgin and Child in a garland of roses; five angels holding Instruments of the Passion (cross; spear and sponge; column; spear) and shields with the five wounds of Christ (heart, hands, feet); Virgin in the sun; Virgin as the Apocalyptic woman. Ten kneeling figures in adoration: clergy to the left; pope and bishop holding a rosary; cardinal; monk; papal tiara; mitre; laity to the right: emperor and empress holding a rosary; crown on the ground; three other unidentified figures; tiled floor.

Museum's opinion 2012: Germany, 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth. ScratchesPeg maintaining the Virgin in place visible.

Provenance
Debruge collection. Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 247, no. 156.

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