Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1500-1525
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Schatzkammer der Residenz, Munich, Germany
Object Number
ResMüSch. 29
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
Dimensions
Overall diameter: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
Description
Polyptych: Upper hemisphere: Crucifixion; left wing: Brazen serpent; right wing: Descent from the Cross, Entombment; outer wings: left: Presentation of the Virgin, right: Marriage of the Virgin; lower hemisphere: Carrying of the Cross with St. Veronica; Medallion: outer: Annunciation; inner: Nativity, Presentation, Annunciation to Joseph, Flight into Egypt, Christ in the Temple
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
LEVEMUS CORDA NOSTRA CUM MANIB[us] AD D[omi]N[v]M I[n] (around upper half, exterior) [Lamentations 3:41]
ATTENDITE ET VIDETE SI [est] DOLOR MEVS (around lower half, exterior) [Lamentations 1:12]
O CRVX AVE SPES VNICA, HOC PASSIONIS TEMPORE, AVGE PIIS JVSTIC.[iam] (around upper half, interior) [Stanza 8 of Good Friday hymn Vexilla Regis]
SVSCEPERV[n]T AVT[em] IH[esu]M ET EDVXERV[n]T. ET BAJVLANS SIBI CRVCE[m] EXIVIT I[n] EV[m] (around lower half, interior) [John 19: 16-17]
ET TV, BETH[l]E[h]E[m] T[er]RA IVDA, NEQVAQVAM MINIMA ES IN PRINCIP[i]BVS IVDA (around medallion, interior) [Matthew 2:6]
ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI, FIAT MIHII SECVNDVM V[er]B[vm] TVV[m] (around medallion, exterior) [Luke 1:38]
[source: Rijksmuseum catalogue]
LEVEMUS CORDA NOSTRA CUM MANIB[us] AD D[omi]N[v]M I[n] (around upper half, exterior) [Lamentations 3:41]
ATTENDITE ET VIDETE SI [est] DOLOR MEVS (around lower half, exterior) [Lamentations 1:12]
O CRVX AVE SPES VNICA, HOC PASSIONIS TEMPORE, AVGE PIIS JVSTIC.[iam] (around upper half, interior) [Stanza 8 of Good Friday hymn Vexilla Regis]
SVSCEPERV[n]T AVT[em] IH[esu]M ET EDVXERV[n]T. ET BAJVLANS SIBI CRVCE[m] EXIVIT I[n] EV[m] (around lower half, interior) [John 19: 16-17]
ET TV, BETH[l]E[h]E[m] T[er]RA IVDA, NEQVAQVAM MINIMA ES IN PRINCIP[i]BVS IVDA (around medallion, interior) [Matthew 2:6]
ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI, FIAT MIHII SECVNDVM V[er]B[vm] TVV[m] (around medallion, exterior) [Luke 1:38]
[source: Rijksmuseum catalogue]
Published References
Hans Thoma and Walter Hege, Kronen und Kleinodien: Meisterwerke des Mittelalters und der Renaissance aus den Schatzkammern der Residenz zu München (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1955) no. 22
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 18
Provenance
Provenance
In Kunstkammer since 1598
Previous Owner(s)
Unsorted