sarcophagus panel (deceased knight presented to the Virgin and Child by a monk), unknown maker from Italy

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sarcophagus panel (deceased knight presented to the Virgin and Child by a monk)
sarcophagus panel (deceased knight presented to the Virgin and Child by a monk)
sarcophagus panel (deceased knight presented to the Virgin and Child by a monk)
late 1300s
sarcophagus panel (deceased knight presented to the Virgin and Child by a monk) , late 1300s
Where object was made: Republic of Venice (present-day Venice, or environs, Italy)
Material/technique: marble
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 58.4 x 40.6 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 23 0.9921 x 16 0.9843 in
Credit line: Gift of Allan Gerdau
Accession number: 1958.0021
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Corpus," Apr-2012, Kris Ercums In this 14th-century carving, a deceased knight is presented to Mary and the infant Jesus by a sainted monk. It was probably a panel in the knight’s sarcophagus. In Medieval Europe, saints were seen as excellent intercessors for the living (or in this case, the recently deceased), to advocate on their behalf before the king and queen of Heaven. In this carving, the knight is smaller than the monk, who is smaller than the Virgin. Medieval artists often used hieratic scale to show the importance of figures in an image.