Corpus from a Crucifix | Yale University Art Gallery

1200–1220

Medium: Gilded bronze and champlevé enamel
Dimensions: 7 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 3/4 in. (19 × 14.6 × 1.9 cm)
Credit Line: Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, Fund
Accession Number: 1956.17.6
Culture: French, Limoges
Period: 12th–13th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Purchased by the agent of Elie Borowski (Toronto, Canada) in central Etruria, Siena, from the owner of a demolished home near the Duomo (date unknown–1956); Yale University Art Gallery (June 12, 1956– )

Bibliography

Konrad Hoffmann, The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 12 through May 10, 1970, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), 141, no. 145, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Signed

Limousin

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