Id  613

Title  Brakel and New York Cloisters Hanging

Searching/Sorting Title  Brakel and New York Cloisters Hanging, Zone 2: Adoration of the Magi, detail

Subject  Description: Three crowned Magi, one bearing a gift, one indicating the star, and the third raising his left hand to his crown and holding a vessel in his right hand, all kneel before the Christ Child, who is cross-nimbed and supported by the Virgin Mary, seated on bench.

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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Descriptive Notes  One of two fragments from a hanging; second part in New York, Cloisters. Destroyed in 1945.

Secondary Sources  Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Hörter , 46.
La broderie du XIe siècle jusq'à nos jours, d'après des spécimens authentiques et les anciens inventaires. Second supplément. , 467-268.
Niedersächsische Bildstickereien des Mittelalters , 92-93, 84, 148-150, no.102.

Photo Repository #  80 B7314 Ch H2,1 B2 130879

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