Cleveland Museum of Art
Corpus from a Crucifix
- Date
- c. 1130–1140
- Medium
- polychromed wood
- Culture
- France, Burgundy, Autun?, 12th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 149790
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
By the 11th century, monumental crucifixes carved from wood and painted were a common feature of church interiors. Placed on or suspended above the main altar, they reminded viewers of Christ’s sacrifice on behalf of mankind at the Crucifixion, an event reenacted every time Mass was celebrated on the altar below. Crucifixes also invited prayer and meditation on Christ’s role as Redeemer. This fragmentary but finely carved corpus, or body of Christ, once belonged to such a crucifix.
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- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Provenance
- 1925-1949: Adolf Stoclet (1871-1949), Belgium | 1979: (Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1979, lot 45) | 1979-1980: (Cyril Humphries, Ltd., London sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1980-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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