New Identities for Some Old Hispanic Silver
Autor: | Johanna Hecht |
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Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Zdroj: | Metropolitan Museum Journal. 29:77-88 |
ISSN: | 2169-3072 0077-8958 |
DOI: | 10.2307/1512961 |
Popis: | N 1932 AND 1933 The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired three pieces of liturgical silver mistakenly thought to have been made in Spain. One of them, a gilded seventeenth-century silver monstrance (see Figure 11), bequeathed to the Museum by Michael Friedsam as a Spanish object, was eventually reassigned to colonial Mexico.2 However, research for the Museum's 1990 Mexican exhibition cast doubt on this classification, and the monstrance was then tentatively reattributed to Peru, a change subsequently confirmed by Cristina Esteras, who presents her evidence in the preceding essay. My discussion is intended to illuminate the context in which her information is best understood |
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