Head of Christ

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Location: 
Sala 020
Artists / Makers / Authorities: 
Jaume Cascalls
Active between 1341-1377 and 1379
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Description:

Jaume Cascalls is one of the most important sculptors of the fourteenth century in Catalonia. This is borne out by his involvement over almost thirty years with the project of the royal pantheon in Poblet for King Peter the Ceremonious and with other large undertakings of the time. Today, on stylistic grounds, he is credited with this 'Head of Christ', which must have formed part of a sculptural group of the Holy Sepulchre, presumably from the church of the convent of Sant Agustí Vell in Barcelona. The break in the neck suggests it belonged to a full-length recumbent Christ, like the one kept at Sant Feliu in Girona and also attributed to Cascalls.Cap de Crist Second Canvas

Sculpture

c. 1352

28.5 x 20 x 25 cm

Long-term loan of the National Artistic Heritage Defense Service (SDPAN), 1940

Inventory number: 

034879-000

Century: 14th
Subject: Religion
Alabaster carving with polychrome and gilded remains
This head must have belonged to a Recumbent Christ which could have formed part of a sculptural group of the Holy Sepulchre. It probably came from the chapel of Corpus Christi of the convent of Sant Agustí Vell, Barcelona.
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