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Standing Apostle (Saint Paul?)

Standing Apostle (Saint Paul?)

c. 1430
(Southern Netherlandish, active Bruges?)
Overall: 23.7 x 9.3 x 5.8 cm (9 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 2 5/16 in.)

Did You Know?

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.
  • Saint-Omer Cathedral, France
    -2022
    (Sam Fogg, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2022-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Van Drival, Eugène. Catalogue de l'exposition d'objets d'art religieux: ouverte à Lille en 1874. Bishops Stortford, Herts: Chadwyck-Healey, 1874. nos. 554 and 555
    Kunsthalle Köln, Schnütgen-Museum, Belgium, and Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Belgium). Rhein Und Maas: Kunst Und Kultur, 800-1400. 1972.
    Steyaert, John William, and Monique Tahon-Vanroose. Late Gothic Sculpture: The Burgundian Netherlands. Ghent: Ludion Press, 1994. p. 327
  • Riemenschneider and Late Medieval Alabaster. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 23, 2023).
    The Medieval Body, Sam Fogg, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY (January 21-March 12, 2022).
    Exposition D’objets D'art Religieux, Lille, l'Hôtel de l'ancienne Préfecture du Nord (14 June – 13 July 1874).
  • {{cite web|title=Standing Apostle (Saint Paul?)|url=false|author=Master of the Saint-Omer Apostles|year=c. 1430|access-date=26 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.41.2