Cleveland Museum of Art
Head of an Apostle
- Date
- c. 1325–1350
- Medium
- limestone, with traces of polychromy
- Culture
- Southwestern France, Toulouse?, 14th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136281
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This detached head with deeply incised hair was likely that of a large, nearly life-sized figure of an apostle. It would have originally stood more than 6 feet in height and was gilded and painted. The head was formerly affixed to a halo carved from the same block of stone, and the head would have been slightly angled downward. Though its original context is unknown, the style is generally suggestive of sculptural programs in Toulouse during the early 1300s.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- probably from the Chapelle de Rieux; (Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York).
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