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The Gero Cross. The Gero Cross or Gero Crucifix (German: Gero-Kreuz), of around 965–970, is the oldest large sculpture of the crucified Christ north of the Alps, and has always been displayed in Cologne Cathedral in Germany. It was commissioned by Gero, Archbishop of Cologne, who died in 976, thus providing a terminus ante quem for the work
Near the sacristy is the Gero Crucifix, [64] a large crucifix carved in oak and with traces of paint and gilding. Believed to have been commissioned around 960 for Archbishop Gero, it is the oldest large crucifix north of the Alps and the earliest-known large free-standing Northern sculpture of the medieval period. [65] [page needed]
Gero (c. 900 – 29 June 976) was Archbishop of Cologne from 969 until his death. Tomb of Archbishop Gero at the Cologne Cathedral (centre, next to the wooden kneelers) Gero originated from Saxony , probably a son of the Billung count Christian (d. 950), who ruled in the Eastphalian Nordthüringgau and Schwabengau as well as over the adjacent ...
The best-known surviving large sculptural work of Proto-Romanesque Europe is the life-size wooden Crucifix commissioned by Archbishop Gero of Cologne in about 960–965, apparently the prototype of what became a popular form.
The cross is an outstanding and moving example of the Crucifixion of Jesus, closely related to the slightly earlier life-size wooden Gero Cross in Cologne, which was a crucial work in developing the Western image of the dead crucified Christ, whose head is slumped to his shoulder, and whose sagging body forms a S shape, showing the marks of his ...
Gero 969–976; Warin 976–984; Ebergar 984–999; Heribert 999–1021; Pilgrim 1021–1036; Hermann II 1036–1056; Anno II 1056–1075; Hildholf 1076–1078; Sigwin 1078–1089; Hermann III 1089–1099; Friedrich I 1100–1131; Saint Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne. Bruno II von Berg 1131–1137; Hugo von Sponheim 1137; Arnold I ...
The Gero Cross of about 960 (frame later). Main articles: Romanesque art and Romanesque architecture Romanesque art , long preceded by the Pre-Romanesque , developed in Western Europe from approximately 1000 AD until the rise of the Gothic style.
The wooden Gero Cross of 965–970 in Cologne Cathedral is both the oldest and the finest early medieval near life-size crucifix figure; art historians had been reluctant to credit the records giving its date until they were confirmed by dendrochronology in 1976. [9]