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Brescia Casket

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However recent studies have proposed that the casket in fact shows a coherent and carefully thought out programme, comprehending both Old and New Testament scenes, though the underlying aims of this have been interpreted differently. Many of the scenes are very rarely depicted in surviving art, and
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of the period, and their identification has generated a great deal of art-historical discussion, though the high quality of the carving has never been in question. According to one scholar: "despite an abundance of resourceful and often astute exegesis, its date, use, provenance, and meaning remain
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by Tkacz, followed by Bayens and a number of reviewers. That would also be an unusual depiction, though of a far more common subject. The key difference in reading the image is whether the wavy lines the figures stand on represent cloud or water. All three authors are able to relate the subject
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The identification of many of the scenes remains uncertain, with new identifications having been proposed only recently, and not all identifications agreed between, for example, Watson in 1981, Tkacz in 2001 and Bayens in 2004. The primary identifications here follow Watson, sometimes mentioning
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in two registers, and a small top register with a frieze of birds. All four sides follow a design with a middle register containing relatively large New Testament subjects. Above and below this are narrower registers with Old Testament scenes, and at the corners thin vertical images, only one
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records these designs. One theory, discussed below, identifies the date very precisely to soon after 386, when Ambrose successfully led the Orthodox population in a confrontation with the Arian-leaning Imperial court. It has also been suggested that it was used for the relics of
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frames. Two of these are missing; there would have been a total of 17 originally, with five on the front, four on the back and four, one now missing, on each side. A young beardless Jesus is agreed to occupy the centre of the front panel, and he is probably surrounded by the
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plaques are attached to the framework, carrying the decoration, with most zones of decoration on their own individual plaques. The casket measures 22 centimetres (8.7 in) high, 32 centimetres (13 in) wide and 25 centimetres (9.8 in) deep.
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The selection of incidents was long thought not to follow a specific programme, although Delbrueck in his monograph of 1939 was able to show that the majority of the scenes, including many of the rare ones, depicted events covered in the
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in 1981, the key to the programme lies in Milanese church politics of the time, and Ambrose's battle with the Arians. For Catherine Brown Tkacz, in a book of 2001, the main purpose of the programme is to state through
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Watson 295, note 25, lists several other subjects that have been suggested, though not Jesus walking on the Lake of Galilee, which has had support in the past. Tkacz is one of those proposing the
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Watson 295, note 25, lists several other subjects that have been suggested, though not Jesus walking on the Lake of Galilee, which has had support in the past. Tkacz is one of those proposing the
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containing a human figure, the rest symbolic objects. The top of the side faces is finished with a register, actually the sides of the lid, of busts of male figures in slightly flattened round
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in 1969 wrote that "It is easy to establish the lack of any link (by likes or opposites) between the scenes on the two borders (Old Testament) and those of the central panel (New Testament)".
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It was certainly used as one later and this remains the most likely purpose. See Watson, 290 and 297, note 63. Only Bayens, 6 and elsewhere, suggests that it was a box for
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Museum, Florence). This has only one Christian scene, with others from northern myth and Mediterranean history, and includes texts which mingle Latin and
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and Paul are presumed to be the two older men with long beards flanking Jesus. The remaining four heads, presumably those on the back face, might be the
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in 1906, which has fewer scenes, and those rather more conventional. Another smaller casket, now dismantled, with four Passion scenes is in the
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alternatives. Watson's notes summarize most but not all other identifications. For example, the scene on the back panel that Watson calls the
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that were used in Milan in Ambrose's time, about which we have a reasonable amount of information from Ambrose's surviving writings.
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wood, replaced when the casket was returned to its proper format in 1928 when the current short ivory feet were also added. Numerous
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several have had new identifications proposed in recent decades. For Carolyn Joslin Watson, in a thesis of 1977 and an article in
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ivory box in generally good condition. The 36 subjects depicted on the box represent a wide range of the images found in the
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Stella, 348; some writers have questioned the correctness of this reconstruction, notably Christ and Kessler.
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The casket is rectangular, with five faces, four sides and a lid, held together by an internal framework of
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stationed in Milan in the late 4th century, when Milan was the usual residence of the Imperial court. The
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by Jesus, which she admits is a rare subject not otherwise known in a similar composition, is called the
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Watson describes the scenes at 285–290, with most of the alternatives in her notes 11–38 on pp. 294–296.
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In 1798, with the suppression of the convent after the Napoleonic invasion, it was transferred to the
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scenes as two; other sources give different figures, depending how the figures are divided in scenes.
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The Brescia Casket: Patristic Exegesis and Biblical Iconography on an Early Christian Alms Box
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Age of spirituality : late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century
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they have chosen to their differing interpretations of the overall scheme of decoration.
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among the most formidable and enduring enigmas in the study of early Christian art."
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the essential unity of the two parts of the Christian Bible, an aim common in later
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Mc Grath, Robert L., "The Martyrdom of the Maccabees on the Brescia Casket", 1965,
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Watson, 284, described in detail in later pages. Page 284 note 11, and 290 on the
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Watson's notes, many cited individually below, summarize most of the suggestions.
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The casket is covered with a profusion of small religious scenes carved in ivory
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The Key to the Brescia casket: typology and the Early Christian imagination
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Soper, Alexander Coburn, "The Italo-Gallic School of Early Christian Art",
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The box was made by a northern Italian workshop, probably in Milan, where
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The Brescia Casket dismantled and framed, as it was displayed before 1928
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kings. Whatever its original function it was used as a reliquary in the
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Metamorphosis: The Transfiguration in Byzantine Theology And Iconography
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Probably the closest direct comparison to the Brescia casket is the
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San Salvatore – Santa Giulia a Brescia. Il monastero nella storia
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Casket, found in a fragmentary condition under a church floor in
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Descrizione della Lipsanoteca sul sito www.museiarte.brescia.it
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it was opened and the contents displayed to the congregation.
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It is not known when it entered the keeping of the convent of
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Grabar, 137–138, 138 quoted; Watson, 283; Mc Grath, 257
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of the five faces is illustrated and identified below.
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The casket dismantled and displayed flat, before 1928
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See below for the subjects. 1096:Daniel, XIV, 27, or Moses and the serpent 1278:, 1988, University of California Press, 181: 18: 815: 733:Jesus calling Andrew and Peter, or the 1209:, 2005, St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1429:, an interactive model (on Sketchfab) 1404:, 1952, Bonn, P. 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ivory
reliquary
San Salvatore
Brescia
Early Christian
evolving Christian art
iconography

Saint Ambrose
Arian
heresy
Palatine Guards
Notitia Dignitatum
Bodleian Library
Oxford
Gervasius and Protasius
San Salvatore, Brescia
Desiderius
Lombard
Middle Ages
empty tomb
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Jerusalem
Easter
liturgy
Easter Vigil
Biblioteca Queriniana

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