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Altar Frontal Depicting Scenes
Altar Frontal Depicting Scenes by Made for the Cathedral Seo de Urgel, Late 16th century.
- Original artwork title
- Altar Frontal Depicting Scenes from the Life of Christ
- Medium
- Silk, warp-float faced broken warp chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; appliquéd with linen, plain weave, silk and gilt and silvered wire, plain weave with twill interlacing of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts; silk and silvered wire, twill weave; embroidered with silk, gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt and silvered wire in overcast, satin, padded satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; semi-precious stones; edged with woven fringes
- Dimensions
- 106.7 × 236 cm (42 × 92 7/8 in.)
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Accession number
- 1944.623
This artwork is identified as public domain by the Art Institute of Chicago and is provided through its open-access program under CC0.
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