Holy Kinship; St. Christopher

Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1500-1510
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Object Number
238
Location
Not currently on display

Dimensions

Overall Closed: 34.8mm × 44.3mm (3.5 × 4.4 cm)
Overall Open: 27.9mm × 27.9mm × 83.2mm (2.8 × 2.8 × 8.3 cm)

Description

Upper scene: Holy Kinship: Virgin and Child with saints Anne, Cleophas and Salome; Lower scene: St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child across the water guided by a hermit holding a lantern

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions around scenes:

AVE RADIX SANCTA EX QVA MUNDO LVX EST ORTA [upper scene - from Office of the Virgin]

SANCTE XPRISTOFORE ORA PRO NOBIS [lower scene]

[Source: Hermitage 1988; Mesenzeva 1978]

Published References

Charmian A. Mesenzeva, Spätgotische Miniaturschnitzereien (Pantheon Jan-March 1978) pp 31-35; Hermitage 1988, 93-95

Catalogue Raisonné

Romanelli 47

Provenance

Provenance
Alexei P. Basilewsky, Paris/Leningrad, Russia; entered Hermitage 1885
Previous Owner(s)
Alexei P. Basilewsky

Subjects

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