埃及玛利亚浮雕的圣水 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	埃及玛利亚浮雕的圣水
品名（英）	Holy-water stoup with relief of Mary of Egypt
入馆年号	1995年，1995.110
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Giovanni Giardini【1646 至 1722】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1697 - 公元 1707
创作地区
分类	组合金属制品银（Metalwork-Silver In Combination）
尺寸	整体: 23 3/4 × 14 3/8 × 4 1/2 英寸 (60.3 × 36.5 × 11.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	金匠兼设计师乔瓦尼·贾迪尼（Giovanni Giardini）为教皇克莱门特XI（约1700-1712年在位）制作了这件物品，并将其赠送给西班牙国王菲利普五世（King Philip V）驻罗马教廷大使乔瓦尼·巴蒂斯塔·博尔盖塞（Giovan Battista Borghese）。后来，它成为德国雷根斯堡桑克特埃默拉姆城堡瑟恩王子和塔克西斯王子收藏的一部分。贾迪尼珍贵的宗教物品是为私人使用或小而私密的小教堂准备的。它们在技术上的完美使它们胜过同一时期罗马的许多精品。引人注目的镀金金属和青金石及其无数闪闪发光的金黄色黄铁矿斑点的结合具有迷人的效果。青金石象征着天堂里的圣人合唱团，而使用这种托起物的人的注意力将指向天堂，一个永恒欢乐的宝库。围绕着欣喜若狂的埃及玛丽的银色浮雕，翻领饰板也表明这位圣人是天堂的一部分。慕尼黑Residenz的Schatzkammer或Treasury中保存着一件相关物品。
介绍（英）	The goldsmith and designer Giovanni Giardini made this object for Pope Clement XI (r. 1700–1712), who presented it to Giovanni Battista Borghese, King Philip V of Spain's ambassador to the Holy See. Later, it was part of the collection of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis in Sankt Emmeram Castle in Regensburg, Germany. Giardini's prized devotional objects were intended for private use or for small, intimate chapels. Their technical perfection is such that they outshine many fine works made in Rome during the same period. The combination of the light catching gilded metal and the lapis lazuli with its myriad flecks of sparkling golden pyrites has a mesmerizing effect. Lapis lazuli symbolizes the choir of saints in heaven, and the attention of the person using this stoup would be directed toward heaven, a treasury of everlasting joy. Set around the silver relief of Mary of Egypt in ecstacy, the lapis plaques also suggest that the saint is part of the company of heaven. A related object is preserved in the Schatzkammer, or Treasury, of the Residenz in Munich.