Object details
Object number
M30n15
Creator(s)
Italian, Veneto
Title
Plaque: Adam, from a Processional Cross
Date
about 1300
Medium
Silver with remains of gilding
Dimensions
7.6 x 8.1 cm (3 x 3 3/16 in.)
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealer M. Guggenheim, Venice, along with four other plaques for 500 lire on 27 September 1897.
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.
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. 15 fig. 3, 19, 50, 64-65, cat. 5.
Gallery
Gothic Room
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