About This Artwork

Spanish or Spanish Colonial

Two-Sided Pendant Shaped as a Temple with the Deposition and the Resurrection, mid/late 16th century

Gold, enamel, pearls, rock crystal and carved wood
4.1 x 3 cm (1 5/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.532

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago. 1951-62, RX200/42.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Renaissance Jewels and Jeweled Objects from the Melvin Gutman Collection, 1962-68, cat. 16.

Chicago, The Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Art, The Art of Jewelry 1450-1650, Spring 1975, cat. 30.

Publication History

Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 79-80 and 97, no. 41.

Ownership History

Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1962; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, April 24, 1969, no. 41; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.