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Altar Frontal Depicting Scenes from the Life of Christ
Made for the Cathedral Seo de UrgelLinkedCulture matchlcp-270855a36d49
- Date
- Late 16th century
- Medium
- Silk, warp-float faced broken warp chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; appliquéd with linen, plain weave, silk and gilt and silvered wire, plain weave with twill interlacing of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts; silk and silvered wire, twill weave; embroidered with silk, gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt and silvered wire in overcast, satin, padded satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; semi-precious stones; edged with woven fringes
- Culture
- Spain
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 51526
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson
- Provenance
- Charles Deering (died 1927), Sitges, Spain [Martino Arroyo, 1918; acquisition documentation, Dec. 28, 1944 and research by Mildred Davison noted in letter, Feb. 5, 1944; copies in curatorial object file]; by descent to his daughters, Marian Deering McCormick, Chicago (died 1965, also Mrs. Chauncey McCormick), and Barbara Deering Danielson, Groton, MA (died 1982, also Mrs. Ely Danielson) [incoming receipt RofO 8302, Dec. 28, 1944, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944.
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- Object type
- AAT300312158
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