About the Artwork
Corpus of Christ
13th century
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Spanish
Spanish
Wood with polychrome decoration and traces of gilding
Overall: 94 × 66 × 11 inches (238.8 × 167.6 × 27.9 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mrs. Charles W.F. Haass in memory of her son, Dr. Ernest Haass
28.3
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
possibly (Siguenza, Italy)
(M. & R. Stora, Paris, France). Mrs. Charles W.F. Haass
1928-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 9, no. 5 (1927/28): p. 57 (ill.).
"Annual Report of the Arts Commission for the Year 1927." Bulletin of the DIA 9, no.5 (1927/28): p. 57 (ill.).
Exposition d'Art ancien espagnol. Exh. cat., Jean Charpentier Galerie. Paris, 1925, no. 136.
Wirth, Karl-August. Die Entstehung des Drei-Nagel-Crucifixus, seine typengeschichtliche Entwicklung bis zur Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich und Deutschland, Dissertation, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet. Frankfurt, 1953, p. 49.
JMann, J. "A Monumental Catalan Crucifix." Bulletin of the DIA 71, no. 1/2 (1997): pp. 48-56.
Gillerman, Dorothy. Gothic Sculpture in America. Vol. II. The Museums of the Midwest. Turnhout, 2001, p. 172, no. 130.
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Spanish, Corpus of Christ, 13th century, wood with polychrome decoration and traces of gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Charles W.F. Haass in memory of her son, Dr. Ernest Haass, 28.3.
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