Object details
Accession number
M30n17
Primary Creator
Italian, Veneto
Full title
Plaque: Winged Ox of Luke, from a Processional Cross
Creation Date
about 1300
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealer M. Guggenheim, Venice, along with four other plaques for 500 lire on 27 September 1897.
Dimensions
8.3 x 8.6 cm (3 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
Display Media
Silver with remains of gilding
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Gothic Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 275. (of primitive workmanship, perhaps provincial Italian Gothic, 14th century)
Alan Chong and Giovanna De Appolonia. The Art of the Cross: Medieval and Renaissance Piety in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2001), pp. 19, 50, 64-65, cat. 5.
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