id: 99816 accession number: 1919.38 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.38 updated: 2020-11-14 10:00:12.035000 Columnar Figure of an Apostle, c. 1180. France, Champagne, Châlons-sur-Marne, 12th century. Limestone; overall: 97.8 x 24.1 cm (38 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund 1919.38 title: Columnar Figure of an Apostle title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1180 creation date earliest: 1175 creation date latest: 1185 current location: 106B Romanesque & Gothic Sculpture creditline: General Income Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Champagne, Châlons-sur-Marne, 12th century technique: limestone department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Romanesque type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 97.8 x 24.1 cm (38 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: Treasures of Medieval France opening date: 1966-11-16T05:00:00 Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This figure of an apostle, probably Saint John the Evangelist, attached to its supporting column, came originally from the cloister of the Church of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux at Châlons-sur-Marne. A cloister was a covered walkway usually around all four sides of a square area of grass (the "cloister garth"). The seclusion of the cloister was the exclusive domain of the monks or clergy and off-limits to others. Here, the monks were able to pray, study, meditate, and exercise in privacy and solitude. This figure illustrates the transition in style from Romanesque to Gothic taking place in ecclesiastical buildings across northern France during the late 1100s. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS W. M. M. "French Gothic Sculpture in the Museum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 6, no. 1 (1919): 6-2. page number: Reproduced: p. 7; Mentioned: pp. 10-11 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136248 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 50 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n74 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 50 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n72 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 54 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n75 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.38/1919.38_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.38/1919.38_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.38/1919.38_full.tif