Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ (left wing: Raising of Lazarus and Crucifixion) (right wing: Entry into Jerusalem and Entombment) (c. 1350–1375): Art, History and Details

Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ (left wing: Raising of Lazarus and Crucifixion) (right wing: Entry into Jerusalem and Entombment) (c. 1350–1375) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Ivory diptychs (two panels hinged together) were used for private devotion by their aristocratic owners. The scenes represented here are Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, the Raising of Lazarus, the Crucifixion, and Christ’s Entombment. They suggest choices made by the original owner who wished to contemplate these aspects of Christ’s passion.

Object facts

• Title: Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ (left wing: Raising of Lazarus and Crucifixion) (right wing: Entry into Jerusalem and Entombment)
• Date: c. 1350–1375
• Culture: Germany, Thuringia or Saxony, 14th century
• Type: Ivory
• Technique: ivory
• Dimensions: Part 1: 20.7 x 11.2 cm (8 1/8 x 4 7/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Gothic
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1984.158

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1984.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163–207.
• Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• Chiesi, Benedetta. "Avori Gotici." In Gli Avori del Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 199 -332. Ilaria Ciseri, et.al. Milano,Italia: Officina libraria, 2018.

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