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| Keywords: German - Saint Luke the Evangelist - Walters 71139.jpg St Luke is seated at a lectern writing his Gospel with his symbol a winged ox emerging from a cloud above The abstract linear quality of the drapery with its zigzag folds is characteristic of 11th-century style This book-cover plaque originally would have been seen with plaques of the other three Evangelists serving as author portraits for the Gospel texts It may have been made in the same workshop as the ivories on the cover of the Mondsee Gospels Walters W 8 between 1050 1075 Medieval ivory cm 9 5 6 5 1 accession number 71 139 15153 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 A Medieval Treasury from Southern Collections Ackland Art Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill 1961 Ivory The Sumptuous Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1983-1984 place of origin Regensburg Germany Walters Art Museum license Medieval ivory in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
