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Jun 30, 2014

Condemnation and Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

c. 1180

Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?, Romanesque period, 12th century

Gilded copper, champlevé enamel

Overall: 9.6 x 20.8 x 0.2 cm (3 3/4 x 8 3/16 x 1/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1949.430

Location

106C Medieval Treasury

Description

Champleve enameling is a process in which the artist carves designs into copper plates, and then powdered glass is applied before firing in a furnace, causing the glass to fuse into enamel. In this case, the copper was then gilded and polished. This type of enameling is still done today, mostly for jewelry and decorative items.

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Inscription

running inscription on the borders: ECCE / DEI MILES SVP(er)AT LAVREN/TIVS IGNE/S (Behold, the warrior of God overcomes the flames) S(an)C(tu)S LAVRENTIV/ S.

Provenance

Basilewsky, Paris; The Hermitage, Leningrad; The Brummer Gallery, Inc., New York; (R. Stora & Co., New York).

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 111 archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 142-143, no. 48

Beuckers, Klaus Gereon. St. Servatius zu Quedlinburg: Studien zum gotischen Retabel und zum Hochaltar der Stiftskirche. Kiel: Verlag Ludwig, 2015. Reproduced: p. 65, Abb. 3; Mentioned: p. 65, no. 18

Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Mentioned: p. 172-175; Reproduced: p. 173

Kemper, Dorothee, and Clemens M. M. Bayer. Die Hildesheimer Emailarbeiten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts: mit einer kommentierten Edition der Inschriften von Clemens M.M. Bayer. Hildesheim : Bernward Medien, 2020, 257-259 Mentioned and reproduced; pp. 257-259, Abb. 131

Exhibition history

Boston, Musuem of Fine Arts, "Arts of the Middle Ages 1000-1400" 1949, no. 255.

Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"

Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).

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