Saint Thomas
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, devotional images composed of cut and reassembled prints elaborately adorned with paint, fabric, and other materials found a ready market throughout Catholic Europe. Vividly colored and multitextured, these works stimulated spiritual devotion through their alluring optical and tactile qualities. Long thought to be the products of amateur practitioners, devotional assemblages were more often professionally made, with dedicated industries concentrated in Antwerp and Southern Germany. These works belong to a well-established practice of altering, combining, and repurposing printed images, and they exhibit a sophisticated handling of materials.
Artwork Details
- Title: Saint Thomas
- Artist: Anonymous, German, 18th century
- Date: 18th century
- Medium: Ink, silk, and painted vellum on a sheet of vellum with a gilt-stamped paper border
- Dimensions: 12 13/16 × 9 7/8 in. (32.6 × 25.1 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Cut Paper, Ephemera
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1977
- Object Number: 1977.627.27
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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