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| Keywords: Nardon Pénicaud - The Man of Sorrows - Walters 44438.jpg Under a polygonal canopy featuring three cusped ogee arches supported by a pair of columns composed of shafts in three different patterns and opening into a Gothic chapel with ribbed vaults closely resembling that of stained-glass panels of the end of the fifteenth century in the church of Saint-Michel-des-Monts Limoges Christ appears behind a balustrade between Mary and St John Christ crowned with thorns is nude and bleeding from his wounds He uplifts his pierced right hand The Virgin her joined hands inert before her stands to his right St John his arms crossed over his chest stands to the left of Christ On the purplish-brown balustrade between the two columns are laid the purple mantle with clasps of the Mocking of Christ the thirty coins of Judas the three dice of the Calvary and the three nails of the cross These objects selected among those pertaining to the Passion of Christ in the Middle Ages constituted the 'coat-of-arms of Christ' Arma Christi and they are consequently brought to the foreground at the bottom of the plaque in the location that would be reserved for a heraldic coat-of-arms The ledge is supported by eight small columns alternately pink and lavender and speckled with green Two of the prophets who foretold the Passion of Christ stand on brackets between the arches of the canopy early Other date century 16 Renaissance technique painted enamel copper cm 21 3 17 1 accession number 44 438 2349 Frédéric Spitzer Paris by purchase Frédéric Spitzer Sale Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim Paris April 17 1893 lot 418 Oscar Hainauer Berlin date of acquisition unknown by purchase Raoul Heilbronner Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters Baltimore 1913 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1913 Undercover Stories in Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980 To Arrest the Ravages of Time Caring for Art at the Walters The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1996 Lost and Found The Secrets of Archimedes The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2011-2012 place of origin Limoges France other versions Walters Art Museum license 2D Nardon Pénicaud Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum 16th-century paintings of the Passion of Christ Paintings of the Man of Sorrows Dice in art | ||||
