Crucifixion; Brazen Serpent

Object Name

Prayer Bead

Artist/Maker

Netherlandish

Object Type

Prayer Bead

Date

early 16th century

Medium

boxwood

Credit Line

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Object Number

VII 32 hh

Location

Not currently on display

Institution/Owner

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Dimensions

Overall Closed: 48.3mm × 53.6mm (4.8 × 5.4 cm)
Overall Open: 51.8mm × 51.8mm × 97mm (5.2 × 5.2 × 9.7 cm)

Description

Upper scene: Crucifixion with Abraham and Isaac in left background, sacrifice of Isaac in right background; Lower scene: Brazen Serpent with scene of Cain killing Abel in left background

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription

Carved Latin inscriptions:

CRISTVS PASSVS EST PROPTER INQUIVTATES NOSTRAS ISAIE LIII CAPITTALO [Isaiah 53:5] [inner around Crucifixion]

SICVIT SERP[E]NS EXALTAT [A] EST PHER MO[YSEM] ITA OPORTET EXALTARI [John 3:14] [inner around Brazen Serpent]

ATT'[N]DITE ET VIDETE SI EST DOLOR SIC'[VT] DOLOR M[EV]S [Lamentations 1:12][outer around Crucifixion]

LEVEMUS CORDA NOSTRA CV'[M] MANIB'[VS] AD DOM'[INVM] [Lamentations 3:41][outer around Brazen Serpent]

[Source: Das Wort im Bild, 2014]

Published References

Dirk Syndram and Martina Minning, Die kurfürstlichsächsische Kunstkammer in Dresden: Das Inventar von 1640 (Dresden: Standstein Verlag, 2010), fol. 453v, no. 85; Menzhausen, Joachim, The Green Vault : An Introduction (Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 1977) p 125; Jutta Charlotte von Bloh, Yvonne Fritz and Dirk Syndram, Das Wort im Bild: Biblische Darstellungen an Prunkwaffen und Kunstgegenständen der Kurfürsten von Sachsen zur Reformationszeit (Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2014)

Catalogue Raisonné

Romanelli 31

Provenance

in Dresden Kunstkammer since 1640

Previous Owner(s)

Unsorted

Subjects

Crucifixion

Christianity

Moses and the Brazen Serpent