# Ciborium [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VECCHIETTA]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Bronze ## Commentary Vecchietta's most elaborate work in bronze is the multi-figured ciborium \(transferred to the high altar of Siena Cathedral in 1506, replacing <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/duccio/maesta/maest\_01.html'\)" href="/html/d/duccio/maesta/maest\_01.html">Duccio's Maestà</a>\) made for the high altar of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena. Supported on a stem embellished with putti and music-making angels, the tempietto-shaped body of the ciborium is in the form of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. It is topped by a statuette of the Risen Christ, superb in contrapposto and balancing precariously on a chalice. A painted model for the ciborium survives \(Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena\). ## Related artworks - [Alms of St Lawrence]() - [Alms of St Lawrence]() - [Arliquiera \(detail\)]() - [Arliquiera \(outer shutters\)]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Ceiling decoration]() - [Coronation of Pius II]() - [Dante: Divina Commedia]() - [Death of the Virgin and Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Death of the Virgin]() - [Evangelists on the vault]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()