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Unknown Maker, Italian

Casket
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Maker

Unknown Maker, Italian

Culture

Italian

Title

Casket

Year

ca. 1500

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

wood, pastiglia, gilding

Geography

Place Made: Venice; Place Made: probably; Place Made: Italy

Dimensions

15.2 x 21 x 14 cm (6 x 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

51.272

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

European Galleries
Sep 02, 2017

Label copy

This casket may have played a part in an elaborate Italian marriage ritual, when gifts from a groom to his bride were paraded through the streets in a small jewelry box. Formed by molding pastiglia-a fine, plaster-like material-onto wood, these decorations recall more costly examples carved from ivory or bone. The sides of the casket feature historical, mythological, biblical, and literary scenes: the torture of the Roman general Marcus Atilius Regulus, the heroism of the legendary Roman youth Gaius Mucius Scaevola and the biblical queen Esther, and the death of Lavinia from Virgil’s Aeneid.

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Italian
Casket, ca. 1500
Wood with pastiglia and gilding
15.2 x 21 x 14 cm (6 x 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches)
Museum Works of Art Fund 51.272

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