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Title:
Reliquary Plaque for a Stone from the Holy Sepulchre: The Holy Women at the Tomb
Creator:
Description:
This object was once housed in the treasury of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. It depicts a haloed angel greeting two haloed women who have arrived at Christ's empty tomb to perform funerary anointing. The angel sits on a rock and gestures toward the tomb, which now contains only the cloth used to wrap Christ's body. The positioning of the head cloth and body cloth underscores the absence of the corpse that they once covered. Sleeping soldiers once were represented just below the tomb and have survived only partially.
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Wikimedia Commons
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic
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:
Angels
Byzantium
Jesus Christ- Tomb
Mary Magdalene, Saint
Reliquaries
Geographic Area:
Eastern Mediterranean
Century:
12
Date:
ca. 1150
Related Work:
Current Location:
Paris, Louvre Museum, MR 348
Original Location:
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Metalwork
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Wood core; Gilt silver; Wax
Donor:
Height/Width/Length(cm):
42.6 cm/31 cm/
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