Sujet
Reliquary of the True Cross, c. 1214. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Reliquary of the True Cross, c. 1214. A lengthy Latin inscription on the frame recounts the history of the central relic--a fragment of the True Cross--and provides an exact date for its container: "You who ask about the cross: read! The heir of Judas the priest/Stole it. But when, after boarding a ship,/He sought a mild breeze, a fierce storm opposed the sorry sailors./Out of his mind, he gnawed at his own hands./In the end the blessed Virgin spoke thus to him:/?You shall soon be well, if you seek to return what was stolen.?/ He pays back this debt to the brothers of the Temple . . . When he died, they cast him overboard, and the storm subsided./Happy they arrive at Brindisi, quiet they have returned with the cross,/Which resides beautiful in this handsome panel. This tablet was created in the 1214th year from the Lord?s incarnation in the month of February."
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19G01_418
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
68,1Mo (7,1Mo) / 36,6cm x 46,6cm / 4328 x 5500 (300dpi)