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Source Description
In northern Europe, a taste for luxurious objects combined with the needs of the Catholic Counter Reformation for objects for private devotion resulted in a great demand for ivory statuettes of the Virgin or Christ. The strain put on Christ in this unnatural position-tied to the column-draws attention to his physical body and exposes his vulnerability, expressed through the emphasis on his soft skin, which can be beautifully represented in ivory.The subtle carving resembles the work of the German sculptor and carver Georg Petel (1601?-ca.1634), who drew inspiration from both German Renaissance and Italian baroque art. In 1624 when Petel was in Antwerp, the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens commissioned from him several ivories after his own drawings.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
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10077
label
Christ at the Column
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obj
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object
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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10077
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contentType
object
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normalized
title
Christ at the Column
description
In northern Europe, a taste for luxurious objects combined with the needs of the Catholic Counter Reformation for objects for private devotion resulted in a great demand for ivory statuettes of the Virgin or Christ. The strain put on Christ in this unnatural position-tied to the column-draws attention to his physical body and exposes his vulnerability, expressed through the emphasis on his soft skin, which can be beautifully represented in ivory.The subtle carving resembles the work of the German sculptor and carver Georg Petel (1601?-ca.1634), who drew inspiration from both German Renaissance and Italian baroque art. In 1624 when Petel was in Antwerp, the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens commissioned from him several ivories after his own drawings.
provenance
Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1625-1650 (Baroque)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ivory & Bone
statuettes (statues)
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1
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1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
25
height
9
depth
7
dimensionsRaw
H: 9 13/16 × W: 3 9/16 × D: 2 3/4 in. (25 × 9 × 7 cm)
Source extras
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ivory
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6211
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BAR
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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