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Living Christ in copper with champlevé enamel. Limoges, Fran…
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Living Christ in copper with champlevé enamel. Limoges, France. 13th century.
Neither of the hands is preserved, and the left arm shows a loss. Small defects on the crown.
21.5 × 16.5 cm.
Our piece closely resembles the Christ from a processional cross reproduced in De Limoges a Silos, the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name, on page 167 [CAT. 44], “one of the three processional crosses with champlevé enamels preserved in the provincial museum of León.” As the catalogue states, the Christ we relate to ours is “affected by a slight anatomical sinuosity, triumphant over death, with open eyes defined by two drops of lapis-blue enamel, and above the engraved head a mural crown with three battlements. The body attains a three-dimensional projection thanks to the repoussé work with a chisel on a copper sheet, to which, once given volume, linear incisions were applied to define the facial features, hair and beard, ribcage, and the musculature of the torso, arms, and epigastrium.”
Reference bibliography:
- Sánchez Quevedo, M.ª Isabel (coord.). (2001). De Limoges a Silos. Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior.
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