Id  610

Title  Brakel and New York Cloisters Hanging

Searching/Sorting Title  Brakel and New York Cloisters Hanging, Zone 3, detail

Subject  Description:
Each scene is enclosed in a quatrefoil with floral, foliate, and geometric decorations around.
Scenes from left to right:
Scene 1: A crowned David is presented with a wreath by one of five women wearing fillets. Above hovers a scroll inscribed VICTOREM HONORANT VIRGINES VOTIS.
Scene 2: The depiction of Christ's Entry into Jerusalem represents Christ, nimbed, right hand raise, and riding sidesaddle on an ass. He is attended by two nimbed Apostles to the right. To the left, a youth holding an axe sits in a tree behind a man wearing hat and spreading his garment before Christ.
Scene 3: Abraham sacrificing Isaac - To the left Isaac, carrying faggots on his back, holds the right hand of Abraham, to the right. Above floats a scroll inscribed YSAAC PORTAT LIGNA. Abraham carries a bowl of fire in his left hand, and below him is a scroll inscribed ABRAHAM PORTAT LIGNEM.
Scene 4: The image depicts Christ bearing the Cross on his left shoulder, flanked by three men wearing hats, one holding the cross and one with shield. The Virgin Mary, nimbed, supports Christ's left arm.

Date  c.1400   Century  15th   Style/Period/Genre  Gothic

Work Type  textile  

Format/Medium  linen, weaving and embroidery

Original Country  Germany   Region  Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)

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Current Repository  New York: Metropolitan Museum, Cloisters

Repository Number  69.109

Secondary Sources  La broderie du XIe siècle jusq'à nos jours, d'après des spécimens authentiques et les anciens inventaires. Second supplément. , 149, pl.181 (2).
Needlework by Nuns: A Medieval Religious Embroidery , 263-277.

Photo Repository #  80 N56 MMetCl H2,1 C 026051

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