Sujet

Reliquary Tabernacle with the Virgin and Child, c1350. Creator: Naddo Ceccarelli.

Légende

Reliquary Tabernacle with the Virgin and Child, c1350. The object's thirty-four clear glass windows, enamel-like colors, and gilded architecture give it the appearence of a sacred vessel fashioned from precious materials. The gabled enclosure around the central painting of Christ and the Virgin explicitly draws on forms usually associated with tabernacles or shrines that were erected over an altar to display relics or the consecrated Host. The frame, covered with gold leaf, suggests the shape of a chapel filled with heavenly light and contains saints' relics within glass-covered cavities. Each relic is accompanied by a note recording its origin and significance. Unlike most Italian panel paintings, this reliquary would have been freestanding on the altar. It is "finished" on the back with a painted marble design and is supported by its own base.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B22_065

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

47,9Mo (2,0Mo) / 28,6cm x 42,0cm / 3373 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

portrait Italy Italian close up wood women woman people boy boys child children family religious architecture Tuscany arts painting infant baby babies country detail religion metal parent virgin art box museum color mother medieval chapel Christianity infancy gold wooden motherhood boxes location century architectural Siena son parenting image studio shot concept details close-up closeup two people mum Colour casket inset description mediaeval tabernacle Middle Ages Madonna gold leaf 14th century Fourteenth Century Madonna and child reliquary Virgin and Child Sienese tempera Virgin Mary Jesus Christ Mary object wood Madonna young women young woman gold Christ Jesus Jesus Virgin Saint Mary Virgin Mother Mother of God The Virgin Mary Stella Maris St Mary Chri grey background Walters Art Museum chasse Heritage Art Our Lady of Refuge Our Lady of Mariazell Notre Dame du Folgoet Our Lady of Folgoet Jesus of Nazareth 1350s tempera and gold leaf on wood panel with glass paper and relics Naddo Ceccarelli Ceccarelli Naddo