The Great Chalice Adorned with Figures
1640
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- 46.7 × 24.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-208380
Chalices traditionally hold the priest’s consecrated wine during Catholic Mass. Wenceslaus Hollar made this etching of an over-life-size chalice from a drawing in the collection of his patron, the English 14th Earl of Arundel. The elaborate decoration consists of scenes from the suffering and death of Christ, standing saints and apostles on the stem, and a pointed foot inspired by Moorish designs (a style prominent in Spain and North Africa featuring distinctive pointed arches). The barely discernable crescent shape just above the rim suggests a hovering Eucharistic wafer, representing the bo…
Provenance
Hanna Jr., 1924.648
Registry history
- 1640 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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