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Pieta Tapestry
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Tapestry woven rug in bright colours, depicting a Madonna wearing a decorative cope/cloak with jewelled border with sacred heart pierced by seven lines (Sorrows?); being crowned by two winged angels. Christ, grey with death, is draped over her knees under a columned archway with two gamaganglia in corners; dark blue ground with borders top and bottom of stylized flowering vine and tears; linen warp and wool weft; linen self fringe (c. 5 inches wide); black cotton twill hanging sleeve at top for a pole (fringe is folded)
Department of Modern & Contemporary Art
Howard Leman Boston Massachusetts gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1952.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of J. Howard Leman
Title: Pieta Tapestry
Description:
Tapestry woven rug in bright colours, depicting a Madonna wearing a decorative cope/cloak with jewelled border with sacred heart pierced by seven lines (Sorrows?); being crowned by two winged angels.
Christ, grey with death, is draped over her knees under a columned archway with two gamaganglia in corners; dark blue ground with borders top and bottom of stylized flowering vine and tears; linen warp and wool weft; linen self fringe (c.
5 inches wide); black cotton twill hanging sleeve at top for a pole (fringe is folded).
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