Design for an Antependium: The Madonna della Misericordia with Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, the Circumcision, and the Presentation of the Virgin

Lorenzo Veneziano

ca. 1370 · Pen and brown ink, yellow watercolor in the backgrounds of the niches. · Robert Lehman Collection

Design for an Antependium: The Madonna della Misericordia with Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, the Circumcision, and the Presentation of the Virgin — Lorenzo Veneziano

This rare sheet probably served as a design for an antependium, a woven or embroidered hanging for an altar frontal. The drawing, recalling the figure types of Lorenzo Veneziano, may have been produced for use in the workshop of a textile specialist. The emphasis on contour would have made the design easily translatable into thread. Venetian artisans of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries were renowned for this type of textile work.

Artist: Lorenzo Veneziano
Date: ca. 1370
Medium: Pen and brown ink, yellow watercolor in the backgrounds of the niches.
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Design for an Antependium: The Madonna della Misericordia with Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, the Circumcision, and the Presentation of the Virgin

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