Cleveland Museum of Art
Saint John the Evangelist
- Date
- c. 1400
- Medium
- polychromed walnut
- Culture
- Italy, Tuscany
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136503
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This sculpture was originally part of a life-sized Crucifixion group and intended to be seen with two more statues: a crucified Christ and a standing Virgin. Multifigured ensembles in wood belong to a vigorous tradition in central Italy extending from the 1200s to the 1400s. Most commonly, these groups represent the Deposition (Christ being lowered from the cross) or the Lamentation (Mary cradling the dead Christ on her lap). Crucifixion groups consisted of a central sculpture of Christ on the cross flanked on his right by the Virgin Mary and on his left by Saint John the Evangelist. Such groups were often displayed during Holy Week in Italy and Spain.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- R. Stora; (Baron Edouard des Courières, Tangier, Africa).
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