Enciclopedia Cattolica

Plate XLI · Tablecloth

Vol. XII (1954) · full-page plate
Above left: CLOTH KNOWN AS THAT OF BL. BENVENUTA BOIANI (length 4.76, width 1.55) with white-on-white embroidery (2nd half 13th cent.). Detail with the Annunciation - Cividale, church of S. Pietro dei Volti. Above right: CLOTH FROM ACHMIMPANOPOLIS (13th-15th cent.). Probably an altar cloth (length 1.56, width 1.20) - Biblioteca Vaticana, Museo Sacro. Below: DETAIL OF THE ALTAR CLOTH FROM THE SANCTA SANCTORUM (ca. 1200). German embroidery (!) on linen in chain stitch in white, with wide open eyelet (length 3.62, width 1.15) - Biblioteca Vaticana, Museo Sacro.
(da A. Santangelo, Catalogo dello spero d'Arte e d'Autichità d'Italia. Cividale, Roma 1936, p. 169)
Plate XLI
(fot. Bibl. Vaticana)
Plate XLI
(fot. Bibl. Vaticana)
Above left: CLOTH KNOWN AS THAT OF BL. BENVENUTA BOIANI (length 4.76, width 1.55) with white-on-white embroidery (2nd half 13th cent.). Detail with the Annunciation - Cividale, church of S. Pietro dei Volti. Above right: CLOTH FROM ACHMIMPANOPOLIS (13th-15th cent.). Probably an altar cloth (length 1.56, width 1.20) - Biblioteca Vaticana, Museo Sacro. Below: DETAIL OF THE ALTAR CLOTH FROM THE SANCTA SANCTORUM (ca. 1200). German embroidery (!) on linen in chain stitch in white, with wide open eyelet (length 3.62, width 1.15) - Biblioteca Vaticana, Museo Sacro.

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