A Painted Casket in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8885703 |
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| Authors | Henrike Manuwald (University of Freiburg, corresponding author), Nick Humphrey (Victoria and Albert Museum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Pages | 235-260 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Antiquaries Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5815 • E-ISSN: 1758-5309 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003581510000144 |
| OpenAlex | W2058268233 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This paper seeks to reassess the iconography and the physical condition of a fourteenth-century carved and painted casket in order to review its geographic origins and to consider its function. The intriguing, but under-researched casket (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum) has been discussed mainly in terms of the Tristan iconography of its lid, apparently derived from a German version of the Tristan story. Yet the casket has been generally described as English or French. In order to review these conflicting assumptions, and to exclude the possibility of a nineteenth-century forgery, the casket was reassessed technically, and the well-preserved polychromy was found to be consistent with a fourteenth-century date. Using stylistic and iconographic analyses, a Netherlandish origin of the casket (around 1350–70) is tentatively proposed. Within the context of the controversial discussion of Minnekästchen , the casket is finally interpreted both as a practical object and as the bearer of a coded language of love
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · German · Iconography · Order (exchange · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies · History · Medieval Literature and History
| Highly cited | No |
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