Featured works are from the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem, photos by Joseph Coscia Jr.: Antonio de Laurentiis, Throne of Eucharistic Exposition, Naples, 1754, gold, gilt copper, almandine garnets, amethysts, rock crystal, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, carnelians, peridots, smoky quartzes, glass, and doublets, 68 3/4 × 32 1/4 × 15 3/8 in. (174.5 × 82 × 39 cm); Crozier (detail), Naples, 1756, gold, rubies, diamonds, emeralds, almandine garnets, quartzes, and glass, 77 15/16 × 6 1/8 × 4 5/16 in. (198 × 15.5 × 11 cm); Chasuble from the Red “Jerusalem Cross” Set of Pontifical Vestments Sent by the Commissariat of Lombardy, Milan or Genoa, probably 1600, ciselé velvet and silver leaf, trimming: gold thread and gold leaf, 45 11/16 × 28 3/8 in. (116 × 72 cm)Image courtesy of Frick Collection
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A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...exhibition of more than forty objects on loan from the Terra Sancta Museum. Ranging from liturgical objects in gem-encrusted gold and silver to richly decorated vestments in velvet, damask, and other fine materials, the works were created for the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and were largely unknown until their rediscovery by scholars in the 1980s. They represent the pinnacle of European craftsmanship in these fields during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and many have no parallel anywhere in the world..."
