Plaque: Adoration of the Magi (c. 1480–1500): Art, History and Details
Plaque: Adoration of the Magi at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1480–1500, painted enamel on copper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Plaque: Adoration of the Magi (c. 1480–1500) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Monvaerni Master (French).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The size and shape of this plaque suggests that it may have originally been an "image de chevet" -- a religious image that was popularly hung from the bed curtain during late medieval times.
Object facts
- Title: Plaque: Adoration of the Magi
- Date: c. 1480–1500
- Creator attribution: Monvaerni Master (French)
- Culture: France, Limoges
- Type: Enamel
- Technique: painted enamel on copper
- Dimensions: Unframed: 9.9 x 7 cm (3 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Collection: MED - Renaissance
- Department: Medieval Art
- Accession number: 1942.565
Collection credit
Bequest of John L. Severance
Further reading listed by the museum
- Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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