Angel / Artist Unknown, Ile-de-France, France
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.157
- Title
- Angel
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Medium and Support
- limestone with polychrome
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1300
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Île-de-France (region)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Île-de-France (region)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Gothic
- Dimensions
- 51.4 cm x 24.5 cm x 15.5 cm (20 1/4 in. x 9 5/8 in. x 6 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 13th or 14th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Primary Object Type
- statue
- Secondary Object Classification
- Ritual Objects
- Secondary Object Type
- figure
- Physical Description
- This sculpture represents an angel bending slightly toward the left with his head tilted downward. Carved slots in his back would have held his wings, and the figure has lost his forearms and hands as well as his legs below the knees.
- Subject Matter
- This figure can be identified as an angel through the two slots carved in its back that would have held wings. The angel would have appeared alongside other similar sculptures in the interior of a church in the Paris region, where it might have been paired with a figure of the Virgin to form an Annunciation group or perhaps accompanied other angels as part of an ensemble around an altar.
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1024 x 1536
- File Size
- 84 KB
- Record
- 1969/2.157
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1969-sl-2.157/1969_2.157.jpg
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"Angel; Artist Unknown, Ile-de-France, France." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1969-sl-2.157/1969_2.157.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
