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Materials:

Reverse-painted Glass

Size Notes:

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Description:

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Condition:

framed within a formal border, wooden frame

Literature:

Reverse Paintings on Glass: The Ryser Collection (1992) illustrates at p.16, fig.7 a related panel of the Descent from the Cross attributed to Hall-in-Tyrol. Two further 16th century panels, of St Jerome and Christ Bearing the Cross, are in the Corning Museum of Glass. In the Museo Vetrario in Murano a plaque of the Supper at Simon's House has also been ascribed to the mid-16th century, see G Mariacher, Italian Blown Glass (1960), pl.58. Ryser notes convincing circumstantial evidence that these so-called 'Venetian Panels' and a number of related reverse-painted dishes originated in Hall-in-Tyrol. Unlike later glass pictures, these panels were individually cast or formed rather than cut from larger panes of glass, resulting in their irregular edges and uneven, striated surfaces.