File:French - Apostle - Walters 5344.jpg
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[edit]Apostle
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Anonymous (France) |
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Apostle |
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English: One of four similar figures representing the apostles; three of the four hold books; this fourth holds a scroll inscribed: DEUS MEUS ("My God") identifying him as Doubting Thomas, who thrust his finger into the side wound of the risen Christ and acknowledged him as "My Lord, and my God" (John 20:27-28). The figures may have been fastened to a shrine or altar frontal.
These figures are molded on an identical group presently at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia (# 2931, # 2932, # 2933 and # 2934). The Hermitage examples are worked in relief from the back as indicative of medieval manufacture. The Walters apostles have light tool marks but appear to have been cast. The Walters heads are cast separately from the bodies. Barbara Boehm of the Metropolitan Museum of Art suggested the heads are medieval while the bodies may have been made in the 19th century in a revival context. One of the Baltimore figures shows identical mechanical marks as those appearing on the Russian counterpart (# 2933), signaling that it was the result of a molding process. |
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| Date | circa 1210 (?) (Medieval) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | copper with gilding | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 10.5 × 2.4 × 0.5 cm (4.1 × 0.9 × 0.1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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53.44 |
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| Place of creation | Limoges, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Exhibition history | The Year 1200. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1970. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Acquired by Henry Walters | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions | incised on scroll: DEUSMEUS; [Transcription] DEUS MEUS; [Translation] My God. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Walters Art Museum:  Home page  Info about artwork |
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