The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Virgin Shrine
inv. no. 56.3.1

References:
Raymond Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques françaises, 3 vols., Paris, 1924, no. 160 (then in the Boy Collection)
Richard H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory : Gothic Carvings in North American Collections, New York, 1993, no. 33

For comparative material see:
Koechlin nos. 125-176
Randall no. 32
P. Barnet, ed. Images in Ivory, Detroit, 1997, nos. 17, 35, 48
Otto von Falke, 'Ein frühgotiecher Marienaltar aus Tournai,' Amtliche Berichte aud den Königlichen Kunstsammlungen 39, 1917-18, 158-67
S.L.Faison, Jr., 'A Gothic Reliquary in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City,' Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art  66, 1936, 133-35
Virginia Wylie, 'A Copper-Gilt Shrine in the Museo Sacro of the Vatican Library,' Art Bulletin 27, 1960, 195-204
Marie-Madelein Gauthier, 'Du tabernacle au retable: une innovation limousine vers 1230,' Revue de l'art 40-41, 1978, 23-42
Alison Stones, 'The Illustrations of BN fr. 95 and Yale 229: Prolegomena to a Comparative Analysis,' in Keith Busby, ed. Word and Image in Arthurian Literature, New York, 1996, 203-83, at  225-27 amd n. 117
 
 



 

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February 20, 2000