5974266 The Infant Christ Pressing the Wine of the Eucharist, c.1500 (linen warp, wool, silk & gilt weft yarns) by Netherlandish School; 35.2?33.2 cm; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, USA; (add.info.: The imagery was widely understood at the time of its creation to reference the physical sacrifice Jesus would later make in his crucifixion. In the Christian ritual of the Eucharist, followers drink holy wine to remember Jesus?檚 suffering. The remarkably fine quality of the weaving suggests the tapestry was made in a preeminent Brussels workshop. The presence of gold and silk yarns proclaim the tapestry?檚 value as a high status object, but the intimate scale and subject matter suggest it was used by an elite individual within a devotional practice, most likely within the home.); by Minneapolis Institute of Art; The Walter C. and Mary C. Briggs Trust Fund.

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