Index of Medieval Art

Work of Art Record 42364

Christie No.: 50 -
Christie No.: 50 -

Record No

42364

Collection

Opus Anglicanum: The Evelyn Thomas Database of Medieval English Embroidery

Inventory Number

Christie No.: 50

Location

Italy, Ascoli Piceno: Palace, Comunale

Date

c. 1267 - 1272

Subject Headings

Diagram

Notes

In 1288 this cope was sent by Nicholas IV as gift to Cathedral of Ascoli.

Citations

Bertaux, É., "Ascoli Piceno et l'orfèvre Pietro Vanini," Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire, XVII (1897), pp. 79-86

De Farcy, L., Broderie, Suppl. I (1900), p. 140; pl. 147

Morris, M., "Opus Anglicanum, II. The Ascoli Cope," Burlington Magazine, VI (1904-1905), pp. 440-448

De Farcy, L., "Chape d'Ascoli," Revue de l'art chrétien, I (1905), p. 27

Gerspach, "Droite et la gauche," Revue de l'art chrétien, I (1905), pp. 194-195

Braun, J., Die liturgische Gewandung (1907), p. 339; fig . 159

De Farcy, L., Broderie, Suppl. II (1919), pl. 186

Mann, H., Tombs and Portraits of the Popes (1928), p. 129

Lethaby, W., "English Primitives: The Ascoli Cope and London Artists," Burlington Magazine, LIV (1929), pp. 304-308

Christie, A., English Medieval Embroidery (1938), pp. 89 -90 (no. 50); pls. XLII-XLV; figs. 85-87

De Francovich, G., "Origine del crocifisso gotico doloroso," Kunstgeschichtliches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, II (1938), p. 163; fig. 104

Paris, Petit Palais, Trésors d'art du moyen age en Italie (1952), no. 205

Rickert, M., Painting in Britain: The Middle Ages (1954), pp. 151-152

Brieger, P., English Art 1216-1307 (1957), p. 211; pl. 79(a)

Schuette, M., & Müller-Christensen, S., Das Stickereiwerk (1963), pp. 15, 31; fig. 101

Gardner, J., "Patterns of Papal Patronage," Religious Roles of the Papacy (1989), p. 446

Piviale duecentesco di Ascoli Piceno (1991)

Staniland, K., Embroiderers (1991), p. 55; fig. 59

Lauria, A., "Note sul ricamo tardoduecentesco," Notizie da Palazzo Albani, XXI (1992), pp. 9-21; figs. 1-6

Ackermann, H. C., "Thomas Becket in Riggisberg," Festschrift für Hermann Fillitz (1994), p. 282

Ackermann, H. C., "Zwei Opus anglicanum-Stickereien mit Szenen aus dem Leben von Thomas Becket," Varia 1994 (1994), pp. 127-128; figs. 21-26

Giorgi, M., & Palei, G., "Opus anglicanum del Piviale di Pio II," OPD restauro, VI (1994), p. 212

Morgan, N., "Opus Anglicanum nel tesoro pontifico," Gotico europeo in Italia (1994), p. 299; figs. 1-2, 4-7

Stones, A., Livre d'images de Madame Marie (1997), p. 25 and n. 9

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