Unknown Maker, Italian

Screen
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Maker

Unknown Maker, Italian

Culture

Italian

Title

Screen

Year

ca.1130-1300

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

iron

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Object Number

38.018

Type

Exhibition History

European Galleries
Sep 02, 2017

Label copy

Beginning in the 1100s, church architects began using wrought-iron screens to demarcate side chapels, reliquaries, and tombs. A blacksmith made this intricate pattern by chiseling slivers from the sides of square iron rods, then bending them to form scrolls. Pairs of scrolls and smaller tendrils were collared together, attached to individual stems, and arranged to fill the rectangular format.

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Italian
Screen, ca.1130-1300
Iron
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. 38.018

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