Head of an Old Testament King

ca. 1140 (Medieval)

23 cm 36.5 cm 22.3 cm

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Sculptural innovation of the Gothic period can be seen in this head of an Old Testament monarch, carved for the abbey church of Saint-Denis, outside Paris. The head, from a pier (column) figure on the building's west façade, represents the transition between the abstraction an...

Sculpture

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28513
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sculpture
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normalized
provenance
provenance
Abbey of St. Denis, Paris [said to be a head from a west façade portal jamb statue]; Raoul Heilbronner, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Dikran Kelekian, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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9
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Gothic
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