Sujet
Plaque from a Portable Altar: Christ and the Apostles, 1050-1100. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Plaque from a Portable Altar: Christ and the Apostles, 1050-1100. These intricately carved ivory panels once decorated the sides of a portable altar. Three of the plaques, those depicting Christ in Majesty and his apostles, were the first major acquisition of William M. Milliken, the museum's first curator of decorative arts and later director (1930-1958). As Milliken later recalled, the pieces "were immensely intriguing, monumental in scale, even if tiny in size, the Christ in the mandorla could have been enlarged and would have graced the tympanum of a great cathedral."
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F99_245
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
38,0Mo (1,7Mo) / 51,6cm x 18,4cm / 6100 x 2176 (300dpi)