id:			149401
accession number:	1978.56
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.56
updated:		2023-03-11 20:51:10.246000

Head of an Apostle from the South Portal of the Cathedral of Thérouanne, c. 1235–1240. Northern France (Pas-de-Calais), Thérouanne, 13th century. Oolitic limestone; overall: 41.9 x 30.4 x 32.4 cm (16 1/2 x 11 15/16 x 12 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1978.56

title:				Head of an Apostle from the South Portal of the Cathedral of Thérouanne
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creation date:			c. 1235–1240
creation date earliest:		1230
creation date latest:		1240
current location:		106B Romanesque & Gothic Sculpture
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Northern France (Pas-de-Calais), Thérouanne, 13th century
technique:	oolitic limestone
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Gothic
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 41.9 x 30.4 x 32.4 cm (16 1/2 x 11 15/16 x 12 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1978
	opening date:   1979-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	found in the wall of a house in the rue Sainte-Croix in Saint-Omer in northeast France in 1923; (Audomarois dealer, France); (René Gimpel, London); (Gimpel Fils, London); (Artemis, London and New York, through Eugene V. Thaw).
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wall description:
These monumental stone heads are among the substantial known remains of the sculptural program of Thérouanne’s cathedral, which was razed to the ground by Emperor Charles V of Spain in June of 1553. These heads were found in a wall of rue Ste. Croix in the town of Saint Omer (a short distance to the north) in January 1923. This group of sculptures from the gable of the south portal of Thérouanne, which includes a stylistically related Christ as Judge, is recorded to have been moved to the Cathedral of Saint Omer in 1554. With their deeply carved wavy hair, curly beards, wrinkled foreheads, and ponderous facial features, these imposing heads--even in their now fragmentary and weathered state--attest to the powerful monumentality of the stone sculpture covering French church facades of the Gothic period.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein<em>. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 174-175, no. 62
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	Nys, Ludovic. "Im Norden des Artois. Die Skulpturen der Portale von Therouanne und Saint-Omer." In Skulptur um 1300: zwischen Paris und Köln. Michael Grandmontagne, and Tobias Kunz, 137-151. Berlin: Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2016.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 140, Abb. 6/7
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