Art Institute of Chicago
Crucifixion Relief from a Rosary Bead
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- Date
- 1500–25
- Medium
- Wood
- Culture
- Flanders
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 25469
Private prayer and contemplation were fundamental to Catholic practice. The intimate scale and detailed workmanship of this wooden bead was intended to inspire both visual and spiritual wonder. The sequence and number of beads in a rosary also gave structure to prayers; rosaries could also be personalized with detailed ornaments, like a prayer nut carved to depict Jesus's crucifixion.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Provenance
- Frédéric Spitzer (died 1890), Paris; his estate sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, no. 2126, with wings and stand, mounted as a triptych; acquired by Durand-Ruel as agent for Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago [according to copy of receipt in curatorial file]; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.
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- Object type
- AAT300301253
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