The Mourning St. John the Evangelist with two male figures (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
- 1966/1.108
- Title
- The Mourning St. John the Evangelist with two male figures (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
- 11.9 cm x 5 cm x 2.6 cm (4 11/16 in. x 1 15/16 in. x 1 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 John the Evangelist in profile with his hands held before him, bowing his head in mourning. A male figure wearing a knee-length robe stands on the right and holds a club in his left hand. A second male figure appears behind the saint in a similar pose of grief.
- Subject Matter
- This diminutive sculpture of St. John the Evangelist in mourning together with its companion piece depicting the Virgin Mary (1976/2.102) once formed part of a Crucifixion scene in a small portable altarpiece. The partition of the larger scene into a number of smaller components, each with a few standing figures confined within a narrow vertical format, was dictated by the shape and small size of the bones on which these images were carved. The availability of bone made these products less expensive than comparable works in ivory, an economic advantage that contributed to the success of the large Venetian Embriachi workshop, which manufactured numerous altarpieces, mirror cases, and small boxes during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century.
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- combination inorganic/organic animal material
- combination inorganic/organic material
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- italy (nation)
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- venezia (province)
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 757 x 1267
- File Size
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- Record
- 1966/1.108
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"The Mourning St. John the Evangelist with two male figures (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-1966-sl-1.108/1966_1.108.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 17, 2024.
