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Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Detail, left wing)

Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Detail, left wing)
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Front

Detail, left wing

Detail, left wing

Detail, right wing

Detail, right wing

Detail, right wing

Back

Front

Wing, left

Wing, right

Front

Wing, left

Wing, right

Subject
Religious. Passion.

Repository Institution
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Madrid, Museo Arqueológico Nacional

Inv. 52096

Ivory;metal (modern hinges)

Height: 280mm
Width: 111mm
Depth: 13mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table.
Register 3: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; Death of Judas (Judas hanging).
Wing, right
Register 1: Christ washing the feet of saint Peter.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep; trees.
Register 3: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket.


Koechlin Number: 0795

Koechlin 1924: French, mid 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 1978: Middle Rhineland (?), last quarter of the 14th century.
Madrid 1992: Rhenish, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Purchased from José Ignacio Miró in July 1875.

Bibliography
M. Assas, 'Objetos artísticos de marfil que se conservan en el Museo Arqueológico', in M.E.A., VII (1876), p. 109.
Exposição retrospectiva de arte ornamental portugueza e hespanhola celebrada em Lisboa em 1882, exhibition catalogue, Lisbon, 1882.
Exposición Histórico-Europea, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, 1892, pl. CXLIII and CXLIV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 286, 290, 291; II, no. 795; III, pl. CXXXVI.
F. Alvarez Ossorio, Una visita al Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid, 1925), room V.
J. Ferrandis Torres, Marfiles y azabaches españoles (Barcelona, 1928), p. 202.
El Arte en España. Exposición internacional de Arte, exhibition catalogue, Barcelona, 1929, no. 2.219.
J. M. Navascués et al., Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid, 1965), room XXII.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), no. and fig. 258, 259.
M. Estella, 'La Talla del marfil', in Historia de las Artes Aplicadas e Industriales en España (Madrid, 1982), pp. 435-462 (p. 453, ill. 321).
M.-M. Estella Marcos, La Escultura de marfil en España románica y gótica (Madrid, 1984), pp. 175-176, fig. 42.
A. Franco Mata, 'Antigüedades cristianas de los siglos VIII al XV', in Museo Arqueológico Nacional: Guía general (Madrid, 1992), II, p. 106, fig. 21.


Image

© Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid.
Credit line: Inv. 52096. Photography: Antonio Trigo Arnal. Archivo del Museo Arqueológico Nacional.

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