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"tombstone": "Head of an Apostle from the South Portal of the Cathedral of Th\u00e9rouanne, c. 1235\u20131240. Northern France (Pas-de-Calais), Th\u00e9rouanne, 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",
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"title": "Head of an Apostle from the South Portal of the Cathedral of Th\u00e9rouanne",
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"id": 304286,
"title": "Year in Review: 1978",
"description": "Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).",
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"description": "found in the wall of a house in the rue Sainte-Croix in Saint-Omer in northeast France in 1923; (Audomarois dealer, France); (Ren\u00e9 Gimpel, London); (Gimpel Fils, London); (Artemis, London and New York, through Eugene V. Thaw).",
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"description": "These monumental stone heads are among the substantial known remains of the sculptural program of Th\u00e9rouanne\u2019s 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 Th\u00e9rouanne, 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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"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 8-9; Mentioned: p. 43, no. 28",
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"citation": "Wixom, William D. \u201cEleven Additions to the Medieval Collection.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 3 (Mar/Apr 1979): 87\u2013151.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 96-100, figs. 22-26",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 174-175, no. 62",
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"citation": "Nys, Ludovic. \"Im Norden des Artois. Die Skulpturen der Portale von Therouanne und Saint-Omer.\" In Skulptur um 1300: zwischen Paris und Ko\u0308ln. Michael Grandmontagne, and Tobias Kunz, 137-151. Berlin: Skulpturensammlung und Museum f\u00fcr Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2016.",
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