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Painted crozier (crosse) (Side)

Painted crozier (crosse) (Side)
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Detail, side

Subject
Religious.

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Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria

Inv. 733

Ivory

Height: 1713mm
Width: 25mm (diameter of the stem)

Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); head of monster (dragon).
Foliated decoration.

Guardabassi 1872 and Lupattelli 1882: 11th century.
Cecchini 1932: Umbria, 14th century.
Bàràny-Oberschall 1952: Umbria or Tuscany, late 13th or early 14th century.
Santi 1969: Central Italy, early 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Italy (Umbrian), c. 1300- 1340.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding: green, gold, red (dots; painted foliage on the staff).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: foreleg and both hindlegs of the lamb. A cross or banner is probably also missing (see the Rieti crozier).

Provenance
Said to have come from the church of Santa Maria di Valdiponte (abbey of Montelabate), Civitella Benazzone (see Lupattelli 1909); in the Pinacoteca collection before 1909.

Bibliography
M. Guardabassi, Indice-Guida dei monumenti... dell'Umbria (Perugia, 1872), p. 215.
A. Lupattelli, Indicazione degli oggetti nei musei di antichità Etrusca, Romana e Medioevale esistenti nell'Universita di Perugia (Perugia, 1882), p. 67.
A. Lupattelli, La Pinacoteca Vannucci in Perugia descritta ed illustrata (Perugia, 1909), p. 85.
G. Cecchini, La Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria in Perugia (Rome, 1932), p. 43.
U. Tarchi, L'arte medioevale nell'Umbria e nella Sabina (Milan, 1940), IV, pl. CCLXIII.
M. Bàràny-Oberschall, 'II pastorale romanico in osso della chiesa di Feldebro', in Corvina, Series 3, 1 (1952), pp. 34ff.
F. Santi, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria. Dipinti, sculture e oggetti d'arte di età romanica e gotica (Rome, 1969), no. 130.
Avori bizantini e medievali nel Museo Nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1990), p. 120, fig. 42.


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