Cleveland Museum of Art
Mourning Saint John
- Date
- c. 1240–1260
- Medium
- painted wood
- Culture
- Austria, Region of Salzburg, Lungau?, 13th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
These traditional devotional figures at one time formed a Crucifixion group with a Crucified Christ (now lost). The ensemble may have been mounted high above the entrance to the sanctuary of a church on a barrier called a rood beam, beyond which lay people were not allowed. Crucifixion groups were common in medieval churches where they symbolized the sacrifice and real presence of Christ in the Mass.
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