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| Keywords: Flemish - Crucified Christ - Walters 27544 - Detail A.jpg Probably made for a rural church this nearly life-size Christ is crudely carved but the very simplicity of the figure contributes to its intensity and power The arms are necessarily made from separate pieces of wood The thin elongated body stretched arms pulled from their sockets and pained expression go beyond ordinary realism to emphasize the enormity of Christ's sacrifice The crucifix would originally have hung itself or with the mourning figures of the Virgin and John the Evangelist below Here it hangs with the panels of a German Passion altarpiece that originally had a sculpted central section That sculpture however would have been stylistically more sophisticated between 1480 1500 late Medieval wood with polychrome cm 148 5 144 27 5 accession number 27 544 32854 Joseph Brummer Paris and New York date of acquisition unknown by purchase Brummer Sale Parke-Bernet New York June 8 1949 Pt III no 219A David Rosen Baltimore 1949 by purchase Walters Art Museum Gift of David Rosen 1950 Religious Art of the Western World Dallas Museum of Art Dallas 1958 place of origin Flanders Belgium Walters Art Museum license Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Flemish religious art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update Religious art of Flanders 15th-century crucifixes | ||||
