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"title": "Head of an Apostle from the South Portal of the Cathedral of Th\u00e9rouanne",
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"title": "Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture",
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"description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \"Year in Review for 1978\" 1979 cat. no. 28",
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"description": "Metropolitan Museum of Art (9/26/2006 - 2/19/2007): \"Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture\"",
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"description": "Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): \"Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art\"",
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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 by Emperor Charles V of Spain in June 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\u2014even in their now fragmentary and weathered state\u2014attest 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; 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.",
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"citation": "Nys, Ludovic and Benoi\u0302t Van den Bossche. Sculpture Gothique aux Confins Septentrionaux du Royaume de France: Les Portails du XIIIe s. de The\u0301rouanne et de Saint-Omer. Villeneuve-d\u2019Ascq: Universit\u00e9 de Lille, 2017.",
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