The Cathedral Museum of Pisa, Italy, holds an Opus ciprense embroidery in the form of a large antependium. We’ve already visited this museum to study the cope of Gelasius II. What makes this 14th-century antependium so special is that it is one of only three pieces of surviving Opus ciprense: Read more
Last week, we looked at a piece of medieval embroidery from the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo di Pisa in Italy. The cope known as the Gelasius II cope exhibits embroidery from the first half of the 14th century and an orphrey from the first half of the 15th century. As Read more
The Museo dell’Opera del Duomo di Pisa exhibits a magnificent piece of 14th-century Italian embroidery. It is known as the cope of Gelasius II, who was pope from AD 1118 to 1119 and consecrated the Pisa Cathedral. As you can tell from the dates, a 12th-century pope cannot wear a Read more