Object details
Accession number
M30c17
Primary Creator
Italian, Venice
Full title
Processional Cross
Creation Date
about 1450
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealer A. Pickert, Nuremberg, on 17 August 1897 for 550 marks.
Dimensions
52 x 29.8 cm (20 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.)
Display Media
Gilded copper on a wood core
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. 277. (as probably provincial Italian, 14th or 15th 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. 16, 19, 20, 37 fig. 15, 48, 50, 73-77, cat. 8.Manlio Leo Mezzacasa. Divine Splendour: Relics, reliquearies and liturgical vessels in Venice ca. 1300-1475. (Padua, 2019), pp. 166, fig. 139.
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