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Triptych: Biblical Scenes with texts from the Ordinary of the Roman Mass
Antonio de Comontes, Spanish, active 1527–1536
y1953-49
The owner of this three-winged altarpiece probably carried it when traveling. The texts come from the Roman Catholic Mass. On the left wing is “Gloria in Excelsis,” a hymn beginning with the words sung by the angels at Jesus’s birth. On the right wing is the Nicene Creed, a profession of faith drafted at the ecumenical Council of Nicaea in a.d. 325. On the central panel are the words pronounced by the priest upon the elevation of the host, the moment in the Mass when it becomes the sacrificial body of Christ. The ritual reenacts the words and actions of Jesus at the Last Supper—illustrated in the adjacent image—and refers to his sacrifice on the cross, depicted in the Crucifixion scene above.
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Title
Triptych: Biblical Scenes with texts from the Ordinary of the Roman Mass
Maker
Medium
Tempera on wood panel
Dimensions
62 x 60 x 2.2 cm (24 7/16 x 23 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1953-49
Place Depicted
Jerusalem
Culture
Materials
Subject
Baron Kuffner de Dioszegh, Hungary (before the 1930s; by descent to his son Raoul Kuffner); Alan Wolfe, New York (until 1953; sale, Parke Bernet, New York, April 15, 1953, lot 29, to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Chandler Rathfon Post and Harold E. Wethey, A history of Spanish painting, (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1930-66)., p. 408
- Dutch and Flemish old masters : Italian renaissance paintings, including works by Steen, Verspronck, Van Reymerswaele, Jordaens, Van Ostade, Bruyn, Huys, Weenix, Brueghel the Younger, Ghirlandais : from the collection of Baron and Baroness Raoul Kuffner de Dioszegh ..., (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1948)., no. 12
- Dutch & Flemish paintings & drawings, (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1953)., no. 29
- Robert A. Koch, "A sacramental triptych from Spain", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 13, no. 2 (1954): p. 24-32., fig. 1, p. 26 (illus.); fig. 3, p. 28 (illus.); figs. 5-7, p. 30 (illus.)
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The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
, no. 40[? -obscured on card] - "El triptico de Comontes", Goya: revista de arte 7 (1955): p. 58-59., p. 58-59 (illus.)
