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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Antepedium with Stories of the Old and New Testaments
Alternate Title:
Paliotto del Corpus Domini
Image View:
Detail, central panel under Venetian style domes; Virgin Mary and Christ at an altar, flanked by a male and female saint
Creator:
Caterino di Andrea Moronzone (Italian sculptor, active ca. 1380-1400)
Location:
repository: Museo Correr (Venice, Veneto, Italy) inv. 1555
Location Note:
Piazza San Marco 52
GPS:
45.4339 12.3375
Date:
ca. 1395 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fourteenth century; Late Gothic
Work Type 1:
relief (sculpture)
Work Type 2:
antependium
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
gold gilding; paint; wood
Technique:
carving (processes); gilding (technique); painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
86 cm (height) x 280 cm (width)
Subjects:
decorative arts; New Testament; Old Testament and Apocrypha; Dominicans
Description:
An antependium is the term for a carved, painted or embroidered panel that covers the front or a Christian altar. Signed by the artists, Caterino di Andrea Moronzone (carver) and Bartolomeo di Paolo (painter). Moronzone came from a family of Venetian wood carvers. It originally covered the main altar of the church of the Dominican convent of Corpus Domini, demolished during Napoleon's reign. It shows a typical subdivision of the scenes, punctuated by arches, in two superimposed registers. It is among the few surviving works of what was a prized Venetian art, wooden figurative carving. (Source: Museo Correr [website]; http://correr.visitm uve.it/en)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A2-I-V-CM-PCD-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Antepedium with Stories of the Old and New Testaments