Embroidered altar-frontal

Artist not known

V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum)

1300 - 1400

Venetian altar-frontal embroidered with the Coronation of the Virgin with 12 angels in centre and the saints to either side. On the reverse; S.S.Querinus, Peter, John the Evangelist, John the Baptist, Paul, and Gaudentius.

• Medium: silk & gold thread
• Dimensions: 113 x 52 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £2000 ( Total: £8,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1964
• Vendor: Bernheimer, Munich

Provenance

Sold in 1930 from the 12th century cathedral of Krk, formerly Veglia, near the Italian-Yugoslav frontier, the iconography suggests it was for the high altar there.

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