The Resurrection of the Dead
CultureNetherlandish
Date14th century
MediumTempera and gold leaf on vellum
DimensionsImage: 3 3/8 x 2 1/16 inches (8.57 x 5.24 cm)
Sheet: 5 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches (14.61 x 10.49 cm)
Sheet: 5 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches (14.61 x 10.49 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-192
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DescriptionA bleeding Christ in a blue robe with gold halo, two large swords pointed at this head, seated on a rainbow (?) Three corpses rising from their graves. Gold background, green landscape.Exhibition HistoryThe Treasury: The Splendor of Liturgical Objects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 21, 2005-February 8, 2006, no cat., as The Resurrection of the Dead.
The Treasury: The Splendor of Liturgical Objects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 25, 2010-February 27, 2011, no cat., as The Resurrection of the Dead.
The Treasury: The Splendor of Liturgical Objects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 19, 2015-March 13, 2016, no cat., as The Resurrection of the Dead.
This illumination is a page from a Book of Hours. They are decorated with stylized floral borders. In the Resurrection, Christ is shown at the Last Judgment bearing the wounds he suffered at the Crucifixion and pierced by swords while the dead are resurrected below. In the Burial, four priests sing a funeral dirge over a draped coffin. They hold the slanted top of a lectern on which rests a depiction of a choir book.
Purchased from Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
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late 15th century
31-120
