The four Evangelists
May one see it?
Yes, receiving visitors
Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
RoomMedieval & Renaissance, Room 8, The William and Eileen Ruddock Gallery
On public display.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the sculpture
These are four panel reliefs carved in walrus ivory in Germany (Lower Rhine) in the middle to second half of the eleventh century. These four plaques probably intended to decorate the binding of a manuscript containing the Gospels. The role of the evangelists as the authors of these texts is stressed by showing them at their writing desks.
Similar reliefs were frequently used to decorate covers of manuscripts of the Gospels, either placed in the corners or, in the form of a cross, about a central plaque.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 220 to C-1865
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 10 days ago
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
