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Ad Tabula Reliquary
Unknown1650 - 1700
Museu de São Roque
Lisboa, Portugal
Reliquary structured in the shape of a portico with two distinct bodies, the top one crowned by a broken fronton featuring the monogram of the Society of Jesus (IHS). From the base emerges the central body with the representation of Our Lady of Populo painted on copper (copy of the original attributed to St. Luke). Over the frame, a multiplicity of applications in bronze which enclose relics. The painting is flanked by two pseudo-Solomon columns and two curved wings .
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Details
- Title: Ad Tabula Reliquary
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator Lifespan: Unknown
- Date: 1650 - 1700
- Physical Dimensions: w73 x h101 x d17 cm
- Type: Reliquary
- Rights: Museu de São Roque/Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
- External Link: Museu de São Roque/Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
- Medium: Ebony, bronze gilt, coloured glass and oil painting on copper
- Provenance: This piece does not appear as included in the donation from John of Borgia; from this we can conclude that it could be a piece of Jesuit origin, probably from Rome, confirmed by its architectonic structure and markedly Mannerist taste., Museu de São Roque/Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
- Manufactured: Italy, City
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