Devotional Diptych with the Nativity and the Adoration
Unknown
ca. 1500 · Silver, niello, gilt copper alloy · The Cloisters
The scenes on this diptych find an echo in the pages of a printed Book of Hours (acc. no. 20.53.3). It is perhaps not surprising that the same workshop should produce the designs used for both the book and the diptych: each is a small object, in black and white, meant to be held in the hands during private prayer. But the same workshop also produced cartoons for large-scale, colorful works of art, including stained glass, and The Cloisters’ Unicorn Tapestries.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1500
- Medium
- Silver, niello, gilt copper alloy
- Culture
- French
- Department
- The Cloisters
- Credit line
- The Cloisters Collection, 2000
