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Reliquary of the True Cross (Staurotheke)
- история:
- Relics of the True Cross on which Christ was crucified were quickly and widely distributed after its legendary discovery in the fourth century by St Helena, mother of Constantine, the first Christian Roman Emperor.
Throughout the medieval period, such relics were housed in precious containers were they could be venerated by the faithful.
This finely made small box decorated with cloisonne enamel and niello is one of the earliest examples of such a reliquary.
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
- перемещение:
- папа Иннокентий IV ( - )
- Pope Innocent IV (Sinibaldo Fieschi)
Нью-Йорк
- New York
- перемещение:
- Морган Дж.П. ( - 1917)
- J. Pierpont Morgan
Метрополитен (1917 )
- MMA
- состав:
- крышка
- sliding lid
- сторона:
- л/с
-
- композиция:
- Распятие с предстоящими
- Crucifixion with attendants
- композиция:
- Christ flanked by the mourning figures of the Virgin and St John, is shown alive on the cross, wearing a long tunic popular in Eastern depictions of this scene.
- Святые
- Saints
- предмет с изображением:
- о/с
- underside
- композиция:
- Благовещение
- Annunciation
Распятие с предстоящими
- Crucifixion with attendants
Рождество
- Nativity
Сошествие во ад
- Anastasis, or Descent into Limbo
- предмет с изображением:
- оформление:
- ~800. Byzantine. Constantinople.
- Перегородчатая эмаль.
- Cloisonne enamel, silver, silver-gilt, gold, niello.
- The lid slides back to reveal five interior relic compartments arranged in the shape of a cross.
- 73х102.
- № 17.190.715ab.
