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Title
Leaf from a book of hours with a funeral mass
Artist
Gold Scrolls Group
Physical Description
This miniature painting depicts a group of male figures gathered around a coffin draped with a blue cloth. Two pairs of candles set on tall candlesticks are placed at the head and foot of the coffin. To the left of the coffin stand four mourners wearing long gray robes with hoods. Facing them from the other side of the coffin are three tonsured clergymen dressed in white, who look at an open book placed before them. The group stands upon a green tiled floor next to a pink wall. The background is painted red and decorated with an exuberant pattern of gold scrolling foliage motifs.
Artist Life Dates
active circa 1415-1450
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
1415-1455
Accession Number
1993/2.8
Medium and Support
ink, tempera, gold, and silver alloy on parchment
relevance
rank 12.20517
Primary Keywords
candles
candlesticks
christianity
coffins
funerals
manuscripts
mourners
Title
Mourning Virgin from Crucifixion group
Artist
Artist Unknown, Spain or Belgium
Physical Description
This standing figure of the Virgin turns slightly toward the left with her head bowed and hands clasped before her in a restrained expression of grief. Her robe is gilded, which contributes a regal note to this somber figure.
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
1450-1500
Accession Number
1975/2.197
Medium and Support
wood, paint and gilding
relevance
rank 12.07664
Primary Keywords
castile (historical region)
christianity
crucifixions
gilding
grief
mourners
Title
The Mourning St. John the Evangelist with two male figures (fragment of a crucifixion from a portable altarpiece)
Artist
Embriachi Workshop, Venice, Italy
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.
Century
14th-15th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1400
Accession Number
1966/1.108
Medium and Support
bone
relevance
rank 12.07664
Primary Keywords
altarpieces
bone
carvings
christianity
mourners
venice (inhabited place)
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