AMICA ID:
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MMA_.62.96
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator Name:
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de Touyl, Jean
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Creator Nationality:
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European; French
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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French, died 1349
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Attributed to Jean de Touyl
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Title:
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Reliquary Shrine
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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second quarter of the 14th century
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Creation Start Date:
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1450
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Creation End Date:
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1474
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Materials and Techniques:
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Gilt-silver, translucent enamel, paint
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Classification Term:
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Enamels-Translucent
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Dimensions:
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H. 10 in. (25.4 cm); W. when open 16 in. (40.6 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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62.96
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Credit Line:
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The Cloisters Collection, 1962
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Rights:
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Context:
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This sumptuous reliquary sets the Virgin and Child, accompanied by angels, within an elaborate Gothic architectural shrine. The arches, vaults, and sculptural decorations are of gilded silver; translucent enamel panels on the wings depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin and the Infancy of Christ evoke stained-glass windows. This example, one of only four such shrines to have survived, is recorded in the eighteenth-century inventories of the convent of the Poor Clares of the Order of St. Francis at Buda (part of the modern city of Budapest), founded by Queen Elizabeth of Hungary in 1334. |
Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.cl62.96.R.tif
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