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Head of Christ

Museum tags: 
Medieval Gothic Art
Location: 
Sala 020
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Collection: 
Medieval Gothic Art
Artist / Maker / Authority: 
Jaume Cascalls

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

Dating: 
c. 1352
Dimensions: 
28,5 x 20 x 25 cm

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Acquisition: 

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

Inventory number: 
034879-000

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