File:Italian - Embroidered Altar Frontal with Standing Saints - Walters 83716 - Detail E.jpg

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Embroidered Altar Frontal with Standing Saints   (  )
Artist	Anonymous (Italy)Unknown author
Title	Embroidered Altar Frontal with Standing Saints
Description	English: This tapestry frontal from the fourteenth century was made in Italy, but found its way to England, where it was owned by John Grandisson, bishop of Exeter (r. 1327-1369). Grandisson was an avid patron of the arts who had traveled widely in Europe, and he often imported works of art from continental Europe to England. His coat of arms was added to the panel in two places, to the garments of Saints Stephen and Lawrence (the second and fifth saints on the panel). By adding his heraldry to the garments of Stephen and Lawrence, both deacons, Bishop Grandisson associated himself with these revered servants of the Church. The cloth is made of linen cord wrapped in silver, and the vines surrounding the saints were embroidered to create a raised pattern, enhancing the reflective quality of the panel. It shows a parade of martyrs who would have probably flanked a central image of the Virgin, now lost. The references to the sacrifices of these saints would have called to mind the Eucharist, a rite celebrated in remembrance of Christ's sacrifice
Date	before 1369 date QS:P571,+1369-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1369-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 (Middle Ages era QS:P2348,Q12554 )
Medium	silk and silver thread on linen
Dimensions	Panel 1: 82 × 97 cm (32.3 × 38.1 in); Panel 2: 76 × 92 cm (29.9 × 36.2 in)
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	83.716
Place of creation	Florence, Italy (?)
Object history	John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter (1292-1369) Bacri Antiquaire, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] Walters Art Museum, 1973, by purchase
Credit line	Museum purchase in memory of Dorothy Miner with funds provided by the Laura F. Delano Fund, 1973
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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