The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Saint Martin of Tours: The Consecration of Saint Martin as Bishop (left); Saint Martin Shares his Cloak with a Beggar
1340–1350
Overall: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.); Closed: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1971.103
Location: 109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture
Description
This beautiful and well-preserved diptych includes its original polychromy, gilding, and silver hinges, though these are no longer connected. With its lapis background, red roof tiles, and gilded details of the figures’ clothing, the appearance is one of luxuriousness. The diptych provides us with a rare and vivid impression of how such devotional ivories were originally decorated in the 1300s.- Ozenfant, LillePrivate Collection, Northern FranceOzenfant, Lille; Private Collection, Northern France
- Barnet, Peter. Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 198-199The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 61 archive.orgTäube , Dagmar von, Miriam Verena Fleck, eds. Glanz und Grösse des Mittelalters: Kölner Meisterwerke aus den grossen Sammlungen der Welt. München, Germany: Hirmer Verlag, 2011. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 271-273
- Splendour and Glory of the Middle Ages: Cologne's Masterpieces from the World's Great Collections. Museum Schnütgen, Cologne, Germany (organizer) (November 4, 2011-February 26, 2012).Images in Ivory: Precious Objects from the Gothic Age. The Detroit Institute of Arts (organizer) (March 7-May 11, 1997); The Walters Art Museum (June 21-August 31, 1997).Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).
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