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品名（中）	阿尔塔克洛斯
品名（英）	Altarcloth
入馆年号	1929年，29.87
策展部门	中世纪艺术（Medieval Art）
创作者	Sophia, Hadewigis, and Lucardis
创作年份	公元 1350 - 公元 1399
创作地区
分类	刺绣纺织品（Textiles-Embroidered）
尺寸	整体: 47 1/2 x 156 英寸 (120.7 x 396.2 厘米) Storage (Rolled and boxed): 9 3/4 × 75 1/4 × 11 英寸 (24.8 × 191.1 × 27.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	贤士的崇拜出现在这个非常大，保存完好的祭坛的一端，来自阿尔滕贝格修道院，距离德国特里尔不远。基督作为审判者;匈牙利和图林根州的圣伊丽莎白，十三世纪阿尔滕贝格修道院院长的母亲;修道院的守护神圣尼古拉斯是纹理丰富的刺绣所代表的其他人物之一。他们公司的一名僧侣跪在一枚被确认为亨里克斯·德·柯南伯格的徽章上。拉丁文的铭文命名了担任针线工的修女——索菲亚、哈德维吉斯和卢卡迪斯——并祈求耶稣祈祷她们的工作能被他接受。亚麻布是自古以来就受到重视的布料。福音书记载指出，耶稣的身体是"用细亚麻布"包裹的。亚麻成为祭坛服务的重要材料，比棉花更有光泽，更不容易弄脏。阿尔滕贝格的修女们创作这种白底白字刺绣可能还有一个额外的原因;他们被称为"白色教规"，因为他们的习惯的颜色。刺绣是 1803 年拿破仑将修道院世俗化后为数不多的几件私人收藏品之一，最终成为博物馆收藏品。
介绍（英）	The Adoration of the Magi appears on one end of this exceptionally large, well-preserved altar covering from the convent of Altenberg, not far from Trier in Germany. Christ as judge; Saint Elizabeth of Hungary and Thuringia, mother of a thirteenth-century abbess of Altenberg; and Saint Nicholas, patron saint of the convent, are among the other figures represented in richly textured embroidery. A monk in their company kneels on a coat of arms identified as that of Henricus de Cronenberg. An inscription in Latin names the nuns who served as needleworkers—Sophia, Hadewigis, and Lucardis—and invokes Jesus whit the prayer that their work be acceptable to him. Linen was a cloth valued since ancient times. The Gospel accounts specify that the body of Jesus was wrapped "in fine linen." Linen became an important material in the service of the altar, more lustrous and less likely to soil than cotton. The nuns at Altenberg may have had an additional reason for creating this white-on-white embroidery; they were known as "white canons" because of the color of their habits. The embroidery is one of only a few that passed into private, and eventually, museum collections after the secularization of the convent by Napoleon in 1803.