id: 149403
accession number: 1978.56.2
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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: 47.6 x 31.8 x 37.8 cm (18 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1978.56.2
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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measurements: Overall: 47.6 x 31.8 x 37.8 cm (18 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture
opening date: 2006-09-26T00:00:00
Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 26, 2006-February 19, 2007).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* London, "Homage to René Gimpel," 1966, no. 55.
Cleveland Museum of Art, "Year in Review for 1978" 1979 cat. no. 28
Metropolitan Museum of Art (9/26/2006 - 2/19/2007): "Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture"
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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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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These monumental stone heads are among the substantial known remains of the sculptural program of Thérouanne’s 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 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
Nys, Ludovic and Benoît Van den Bossche. Sculpture Gothique aux Confins Septentrionaux du Royaume de France: Les Portails du XIIIe s. de Thérouanne et de Saint-Omer. Villeneuve-d’Ascq: Université de Lille, 2017.
page number: Reproduced: p. 45, fig. 8; Mentioned: p. 11, 43, 46, 63
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