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Corpus for a Crucifix

y1956-107

Bronze corpora, sculpted bodies of the crucified Christ, survive in large numbers. They were made to attach to the crosses that stood on Roman Catholic altars or were carried in procession. Corpora were preserved, even after they had been detached from their crosses, because they were valued as sacred images. The selection here includes earlier examples depicting the Triumphant Christ upright on the cross, standing on a platform, and crowned as victorious over death. Later images represent Christ suffering, as the Passion (Jesus’s torture and death) was emphasized as part of an effort to make Biblical events more immediate for worshipers.

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Object Number

y1956-107

Medium

Bronze with gilding

Dates

mid 12th century

Dimensions

19 × 18 × 3.5 cm (7 1/2 × 7 1/16 × 1 3/8 in.)

Culture

French or Mosan

Credit Line

Bequest of Albert Mathias Friend Jr., Class of 1915

Place Made

Mosan

Type

bronzes, metalwork

Subject

devotional objects, crucifix, men, Christianity, altars, Christ, figures (representations)

Materials

bronze

Albert Mathias Friend Jr.; 1956 bequest to Princeton University Art Museum.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774252

"Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 16, no. 1 (1957): p. 12-14., p. 13

1830 1957

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774357

Rosalie B. Green, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 19, no. 1 (1960): p. 21-25., fig. 1, p. 22 (illus.); fig. 2, p. 23 (illus.)

3820 1960

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/963109200

R. G. Calkins, A medieval treasury: an exhibition of Medieval art from the third to the sixteenth century, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1968)., p. 131, no. 45

1847 1968

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14244748

Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 55 (illus.)

1899 1986

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191864564

Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 172 (illus.)

474 2007