Standing Apostle (Saint Paul?)
c. 1430
Master of the St. Omer Apostles
Master of the St. Omer Apostles (Northern France / Netherlands, Bruges (?) (today’s Belgium), active, c. 1410–30)
Medieval Art
Standing Apostle (Saint Paul?), c. 1430. Master of the St. Omer Apostles (Northern France / Netherlands, Bruges (?) (today’s Belgium), active, c. 1410–30). Alabaster; overall: 23.7 x 9.3 x 5.8 cm (9 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 2 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2022.41.2 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. Alabaster is very soft; after 20 minutes of treatment with water the surface will dissolve.
- Maker/Artist
- Master of the St. Omer Apostles
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- Alabaster
- Medium
- alabaster
- Dimensions
- Overall: 23.7 x 9.3 x 5.8 cm (9 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 2 5/16 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 2022.41.2
- Credit Line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Exhibitions
- <em>The Medieval Body</em>, Sam Fogg, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY (January 21-March 12, 2022)., <em>Exposition D’objets D'art Religieux</em>, Lille, l'Hôtel de l'ancienne Préfecture du Nord (14 June – 13 July 1874).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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