The Coronation of King David
Cathedral of Amiens, 1501
Painted on wood, 6 feet 4 inches tall (193 cm.)
MNMA (Cluny Museum in Paris), Fonds Du Sommerard, Cl. 822
David is anointed in 2 Samuel 2:1-4, which places the anointing in Hebron but says nothing about the building where it occurred. Here it is an elaborate church-like structure. High ceremony is also emphasized in
this silver plate
from the 7th century. But in a drawing by Jean Poyet the event is in a tent pitched in an open field (Wieck, 33).
This is one of two wings of a triptych. The central panel has been lost. The other wing portrays the coronation in 1498 of Louis XII. The elaborate
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Photographed at the Cluny by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.