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Hidden Doors and Secret Drawers: Furniture by the Roentgens

Wolfram Koeppe, the Marina Kellen French Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses the intricate furniture designs created by Abraham and David Roentgen. The father-and-son team created innovative designs that were combined with intriguing mechanical devices to revolutionize traditional French and English furniture types.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, on view October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition and catalogue are made possible by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

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Saint Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order

Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio (Italian, 1418–after 1481)

Date:: 1459
Culture:: Italian, Perugia
Medium:: Marble
Dimensions:: Overall (confirmed): H. 16 3/4 x W. 25 1/8 x D. 2 3/4 in., 57lb. (42.5 x 63.8 x 7 cm, 25.855kg)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1914
Accession Number:: 14.45

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 500

Description

In this symbolic scene, the young Christ presents the Order of her Rule in the form of a scroll to Saint Bridget of Sweden (c. 1303 - 1373, canonized 1391), whose attribute is the sphinx. The mystic vision is described in her Revelationes.

The relief has been identified as having been commissioned in 1459 for the predella of the altar of San Lorenzo in San Domenico, Perugia, which was dismantled by 1482.
Provenance

Altar of San Lorenzo, church of San Domenico, Perugia (1459–82)Louis Châtel , Lyons (in 1879) ; Édouard Aynard , Lyons (until 1913; sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, December 4, 1913, no. 267, for 28,000 Fr, to Canessa); [ Canessa , New York, 1913–14; sold to MMA ]
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