Relief Panel
Unknown Artist
13th century
Medium
Alabaster
Dimensions
Overall: 22 3/4 x 18 x 4 in. (57.8 x 45.7 x 10.2 cm)
Classification
Sculpture-Alabaster
Culture
Spanish
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Dodge Fund, 1913
Accession Number
13.21
Tags
About this artwork
This alabaster relief panel represents the sophisticated sculptural traditions of medieval Europe, where alabaster became increasingly popular from the early fourteenth century onward. Although catalogued as thirteenth century, alabaster relief panels flourished primarily from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries across England, Spain, France, the Low Countries, Germany, and Poland. Alabaster's distinctive qualities—its lustrous surface, capacity for fine detail, and relative ease of car...