The Coronation of the Virgin

15th century

English

Status: On View, Gallery 236
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: English
Title: The Coronation of the Virgin
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1400–1500
Medium: Alabaster with polychromy and gilding
Dimensions: 40 × 27.3 cm (20 1/2 × 13 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1912.1654
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Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, American and European Decorative Arts: A Pictorial Review of Notable Objects in its Collections and Notes on the Society’s Aims and History (Chicago, 1951), no. 60 (ill.).
Augusta S. Tavender, “Mediaeval English Alabasters in American Museums,” Speculum 30, 1 (1955), pp. 64-71, here 70, no. 57.
Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2: The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, Belgium, 2001), pp. 3-4, no. 2, ill.
Francis Cheetham, Alabaster Images of Medieval England (Rochester, N.Y., 2003), p. 104, no. 6.

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The First One Hundred Years, April 29 - June 19, 1977, cat. 321.

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