Processional Cross
maker
Unknown
Dateabout 1450
Place MadeUmbria, Italy, Europe
MediumPartly gilded silver on a wood core
Dimensions54 x 28.7 cm (21 1/4 x 11 5/16 in.)
ClassificationsCeremonial Objects
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberM19w37
eMuseum ID729277
Previous Number578
EmbARK ObjectID14334
TMS Source ID3141
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesGilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 166. (as Italian, 16th century)
Alan Chong and Giovanna De Appolonia. The Art of the Cross: Medieval and Renaissance Piety in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2001), pp.19, 47-50 figs. 20-23 and 26, 82-83, cat. 10. (as Italian (Umbria), about 1450)
Alan Chong and Giovanna De Appolonia. The Art of the Cross: Medieval and Renaissance Piety in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2001), pp.19, 47-50 figs. 20-23 and 26, 82-83, cat. 10. (as Italian (Umbria), about 1450)
ProvenanceNotesAcquired by the American art historian Stanley B. Lothrop (1881-after 1942) in Perugia on the advice of Umberto Gnoli (1878-1947), an expert on the art of Umbria.
Gift from Stanley B. Lothrop to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1915.
Gift from Stanley B. Lothrop to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1915.
