Corpus of Christ, 13th century

  • Spanish

Wood with polychrome decoration and traces of gilding

  • Overall: 94 × 66 × 11 inches (238.8 × 167.6 × 27.9 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Charles W.F. Haass in memory of her son, Dr. Ernest Haass

28.3

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

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)

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.

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.