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| Keywords: Master of the Large Foreheads - Pietà - Walters 4489.jpg This plaque was probably made for private devotion The Virgin is seated beneath the tau-shaped cross the ends of which are cut aslant Above is the titulus inscribed INRI She wears a dark purple robe a white wimple and a long blue mantle which is drawn over her head Across her lap lies the body of Christ still wearing the crown of thorns and draped with a lioncloth The head of Christ is reverently supported in a green kerchief by a holy woman at the left dressed in a mulberry-colored robe At the right stands Mary Magdalene who wipes her eyes with a cloth and carries a blue pot of ointment She is dressed in a robe of the same color as that of the other holy women nearly hidden by a mantle of gold-brown The three haloes also are painted in the mulberry color Beyond is a green landscape with sketchy indications of grass and trees drawn in dark lines under the green enamel The deep blue sky is dotted with stars early Other date century 16 Renaissance technique painted enamel copper cm 13 4 10 6 accession number 44 89 24461 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Master of the Large Foreheads Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum Holy women | ||||
