Art Institute of Chicago
Casket with the Three Theological Virtues
Italian
- Date
- c. 1525-c. 1550
- Medium
- Gold, enamel, rock crystal, and lapis lazuli
- Culture
- Northern Italy
- Department
- Applied Arts of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Miniature caskets might have been used in the Renaissance to house jewels or possibly saintly relics. This example features panels of engraved rock crystal, an extremely hard material of great clarity and polish that is carved only with patience and skill. The emblematic figures depicted here are modeled after the work of the sixteenth-century Italian painter Raphael.
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- Object type
- AAT300411548
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