Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Antepedium with Stories of the Old and New Testaments

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.visitmuve.it/en)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A2-I-V-CM-PCD-A02
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.