The Mourning Virgin and holy women (fragment of a Crucifixion from a portable altarpiece) / Embriachi Workshop, Venice, Italy / Executed in the workshop of Baldassare degli Embriachi
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- Accession Number
- 1976/2.102
- Title
- The Mourning Virgin and holy women (fragment of a Crucifixion from a portable altarpiece)
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Medium and Support
- bone
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1400
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Italy (nation)
- Veneto (region)
- Venezia (province)
- Venice (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Italy (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Veneto (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Venezia (province)
- Creation Place 5
- Venice (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Presented in memory of Rosalie Eisenberg
- Style/Group/Movement
- Gothic
- Dimensions
- 11.8 cm x 4 cm x 2.8 cm (4 5/8 in. x 1 9/16 in. x 1 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 14th-15th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Primary Object Type
- altarpiece
- Secondary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Secondary Object Type
- carving
- Physical Description
- This carved bone sculpture depicts the Virgin Mary raising her right hand in a gesture of grief while her head is bent in mourning. A similar female figure, holding her hands clasped before her, appears in profile behind the Virgin, and another female figure stands to the left. Behind the mourning women the pointed helmets worn by two soldiers may be discerned.
- Subject Matter
- This diminutive sculpture represents the grief-stricken Virgin and two other mourning women along with two soldiers that, together with its companion piece depicting John the Evangelist (1966/1.108), once formed part of a Crucifixion scene in a small portable altarpiece.
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- combination inorganic/organic animal material
- combination inorganic/organic material
- descriptors
- europe (continent)
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- geographic and political locations
- italy (nation)
- materials
- materials by composition
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- religious visual works
- sculpture
- sculpture by technique
- veneto (region)
- venezia (province)
- visual works
- visual works by function
- visual works by medium or technique
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 649 x 1223
- File Size
- 36 KB
- Record
- 1976/2.102
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" The Mourning Virgin and holy women (fragment of a Crucifixion from a portable altarpiece); Embriachi Workshop, Venice, Italy; Executed in the workshop of Baldassare degli Embriachi." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1976-sl-2.102/1976_2.102.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
