Cleveland Museum of Art

Textile Fragment with the Annunciation

Date

1370–1400

Medium

Silk with gold thread; lampas weave

Culture

Italy

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The motif shown here depicts the Virgin Mary and the angel Gabriel in a repeating sequence. Both figures kneel above a bed of flowers while a dove representing the Holy Ghost hovers above. The ground of this luxury silk, woven with highlights of gold thread, is now a faded blue. Its original purpose is not clear, but it may have originally been part of an altar frontal or possibly an ecclesiastical cope, or cape.

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