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Ivory Plaque with Saint Mark the Evangelist and his Symbol in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Ivory Plaque with Saint Mark the Evangelist and his Symbol in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
Panel with the Evangelist Mark and His Symbol, carved 1000–1100
Ottonian (probably Cologne, Germany)
Ivory
Overall 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 5/16 in. (13.9 x 10.8 x 0.8 cm)
Inscribed in Latin: [I am] the voice of one crying [in the wilderness] (Mark 1:3)
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.36)

This ivory originally decorated the cover of a manuscript—certainly a gospel book—and was accompanied by panels depicting the other three Evangelists. The miniature church architecture resembles monuments still to be seen in Cologne, one of the most important artistic centers of the Ottonian empire.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/17.190.36

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