# Prayer-nut

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## Artwork

- Artist: [DIRCKSZ, Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dircksz-adam-r6f0798a716d987>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Boxwood, diameter 4,6 cm

## Commentary

At the end of the middle ages, artists produced a variety of small-scale devotional artefacts in the form of small, often portable objects that would assist in prayer and meditation. These objects included among others rosary beads and prayer-nuts. The picture shows a prayer-nut which opens to display two minuscule Passion reliefs: the Carrying the Cross and the Crucifixion. The reliefs were made from separate pieces of wood which were then fixed onside the hollow hemispheres of the nut with tiny nails.

## Related artworks

- [Triptych with the Passion of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/dircksz-adam-r6f0798a716d987/triptych-with-the-passion-of-christ-r80824737b9f78b>)

## Attribution

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