Capture of Christ. Culture: German, Augsburg or Nuremberg. Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 2 7/16 × 1 3/4 in. (6.2 × 4.4 cm). Date: 1520-30.These sculptural reliefs (2015.388.1-.4) display extraordinary, jewel-like enameling accomplished through an innovative technique involving molten glass paste built up over an armature of gold wires on a silver base. In expressive detail, they represent four scenes of Christ's Passion at a tiny scale--fully appreciable only to those privileged enough to view the reliefs at close range. (The compositions owe more than a little to the Small Passion print series by the famous Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer.) Expensive as they were, the plaques would have been worth only a fraction of the treasure in the container they decorated: most likely some lost relic, imbued with spiritual power and believed to bridge our world with the divine.Elizabeth Cleland, 2017. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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$Capture of Christ. Culture: German, Augsburg or Nuremberg. Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 2 7/16 × 1 3/4 in. (6.2 × 4.4 cm). Date: 1520-30.These sculptural reliefs (2015.388.1-.4) display extraordinary, jewel-like enameling accomplished through an innovative technique involving molten glass paste built up over an armature of gold wires on a silver base. In expressive detail, they represent four scenes of Christ's Passion at a tiny scale--fully appreciable only to those privileged enough to view the reliefs at close range. (The compositions owe more than a little to the Small Passion print series by the famous Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer.) Expensive as they were, the plaques would have been worth only a fraction of the treasure in the container they decorated: most likely some lost relic, imbued with spiritual power and believed to bridge our world with the divine.Elizabeth Cleland, 2017. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.$

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