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Standing Apostle (Saint Paul?)

c. 1430
(Southern Netherlandish, active Bruges?)
Southern Netherlands or Northern France
Alabaster
Overall: 23.7 x 9.3 x 5.8 cm (9 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 2 5/16 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2022.41.2
Location: 109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture
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Alabaster is very soft; after 20 minutes of treatment with water the surface will dissolve.

Description

This sculpture comes from an altarpiece in the cathedral of Saint Omer in northern France. Four other figures have been preserved there, and possibly one at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The workshop was probably located in Bruges, in what is now Belgium. Sculpture was the leading art genre at that time. The specialized workshops obtained the stone alabaster from distant quarries, in this case from the area of Würzburg in Bavaria (Germany), to form it intricately and deliver it to customers in almost all of Europe.
Standing Apostle (Saint Paul?)

Standing Apostle (Saint Paul?)

c. 1430

Master of the Saint-Omer Apostles

(Southern Netherlandish, active Bruges?)
Southern Netherlands or Northern France

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