Lot 7
7
SPANISH, PALENCIA, SECOND HALF 13TH CENTURY
SPANISH, PALENCIA, SECOND HALF 13TH CENTURY
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These lots have been imported from outside the EU … Read more THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN (LOTS 7 - 10)
SPANISH, PALENCIA, SECOND HALF 13TH CENTURY

CHRIST CRUCIFIED

Details
SPANISH, PALENCIA, SECOND HALF 13TH CENTURY
CHRIST CRUCIFIED
Polychrome wood
54 ½ in. (138.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Grasas Antiques, Barcelona, 1967, where acquired by the father of the present owner.



Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
L. M. Agusti, El Conventet: coleccion de escultura, Barcelona, 1972, nos. 65-66.
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Lot Essay

A remarkable number of romanesque corpora have survived from the areas North and South of the Pyrenees. A corpus from a Descent from the Cross from Saint Joan de les Abadesses can be securely dated as it was consecrated in 1251. The present figure is similarly Romanesque in style, with its calm, majestic severity, achieved by elongation, particularly of the face. The facial features, large ears and a long nose, can be compared to the corpus figure in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, that came from the parish church of Santa Maria de Taüll (E. Carbonell i Esteller, Tesoros medievales del Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 1997, pp. 129-131).

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