Record details

• generalData.title

  Crucifixion

• generalData.creationDate

  segle XVI

• generalData.manufacture

  Flemish manufacture

• technicalData.measurements

  238 x 221,5 cm

• technicalData.description

  Wool, silk and gold thread

• technicalData.complementaryDescription

  This weaving does not present any signature or manufacturers mark, but it can safely be attributed to a large group of devotional tapestries produced in Brussels in the first quarter of the sixteenth century – marks were compulsory from 1528 on. The general design, the style of the garments and attributes, the floral ornament of the borders, are common to these weavings.
  
  Devotional paintings with this theme of Christ on the Cross were widespread in Flemish and Dutch painting of this epoch, end 15th – early 16th century. A specific designer for this tapestry cannot be identified, but some parallels can be made, for example with a tryptich by Quinten Metsijs (Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, circa 1520).
  
  The grouping of Christ’s enemies at His left side, thus right on the weaving, is common in painting since the late fifteenth century, e.g. by Simon Marmion and the Master of the Tiburtine Sybil.
  Many devotional tapestries of this type were sold in Spain over the market of Medina del Campo. Queen Isabel of Castile (Isabel la Catolica) bought such a weaving, but of a much larger size, in 1504 - the description in her will offers many parallels with the here analyzed tapestry (see Text Appendix)
  
  In conclusion, we may state that the present tapestry belongs to the group of the highest value weavings in the history of early Brussels tapestry.