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Gabled panel (fragment of a diptych or polyptych), 1 register (Front)

Gabled panel (fragment of a diptych or polyptych), 1 register (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Rome, Vatican, Musei Vaticani

Inv. 64622 (Morey A84)

Ivory (?)

Height: 110mm
Width: 38mm
Depth: 7mm
Weight: 30.7g

Saint Andrew holding a crucifix.

Egbert 1929: North Italy (Venice), 1st half of the 14th century.
Morey 1936: Venice, 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: along the hems, halo.Inscription: ('S. ANDREAS').

Reverse
Some scoring.

Object Condition
Lower right corner broken and repaired.

Provenance
First mentioned by De Rossi between 1878 and 1894 (see G. B. De Rossi, Catalogo del Museo Sacro Vaticano, dictated by G. B. De Rossi, written by Mons. C. Stornajolo [Rome, after 23 October 1878 - before 20 September 1894]; Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms Arch. Bibl. 66a, f. 314v, no. 1101).

Bibliography
G. B. De Rossi, Catalogo del Museo Sacro Vaticano, dictated by G. B. De Rossi, written by Mons. C. Stornajolo [Rome, after 23 October 1878 - before 20 September 1894]; Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms Arch. Bibl. 66a, f. 314v, no. 1101.
R. Kanzler, Gli avori dei musei profano e sacro della Biblioteca Vaticana (Rome, 1903), II, no. 36, pl. X.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [pp. 171 ff.].
C. R. Morey, Gli oggetti di avorio e di osso del Museo Vaticano (Vatican City, 1936), p. 77, no. A84, pl. XXI.


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