Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
c. 1500-1520
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object Number
264-1874
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall Closed: 922mm × 593mm × 249mm (92.2 × 59.3 × 24.9 cm)
Overall Open: 97mm (9.7 cm)
Overall Open: 97mm (9.7 cm)
Description
Crucifixion of Christ between the two thieves in the central compartment, set before a vaulted space with four traceried windows. Numerous figures fill the fore- and middle-ground including the Virgin fainting at the foot of the cross with St John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene and six figures on horseback, including Longinus and Stephaton. In the vault above the Cross, almost obscured by the foliate border of the frame, is the half-length figure of God the Father.
The left wing shows the carrying of the Cross in front of a rock landscape of tiered stones, and the right the scene of the Lamentation.
source: V&A website
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions below scenes on wings:
O CRVX AVE [left wing]
SPES VNICA [right wing - source: hymn Vexilla Regis.]
[translation: O hail the Cross, Only Hope - source: Williamson 2002, p 148]
[source V&A website]
O CRVX AVE [left wing]
SPES VNICA [right wing - source: hymn Vexilla Regis.]
[translation: O hail the Cross, Only Hope - source: Williamson 2002, p 148]
[source V&A website]
Published References
List of Objects in the Art Division, South Kensington, Acquired During the Year 1874, Arranged According to the Dates of Acquisition. London : Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O. p. 20; Richard Marks, Two Early Sixteenth Century Boxwood Carvings Associated with the Glymes Family of Bergen op Zoom (Oud Holland, 91, 1977, p142, fig 7); Paul Williamson, Netherlandish Sculpture, London, 2002, pp. 148-9, cat no. 49
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 11
Provenance
Previous Owner(s)
Unsorted