Leather Panel (c. 1350–1400): Art, History and Details

Leather Panel (c. 1350–1400) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This leather panel has been tooled into deep relief. It probably decorated a wooden casket. The two scenes represented are, above, Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection--also known as the Noli me tangere ("Do not touch me")--and, below, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem.

Object facts

• Title: Leather Panel
• Date: c. 1350–1400
• Culture: France
• Type: Leather
• Technique: tooled leather
• Dimensions: Overall: 15.9 x 7.7 cm (6 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Gothic
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1973.223

Collection credit

Gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.
• “Annual Report for 1973.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 6 (June 1974): 179–213.

View the collection record

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