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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
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.
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 ...
Santa Croce Crucifix, 448 cm × 390 cm (176.4 in × 153.5 in), by Cimabue, Florence, 1287–1288. The earliest Western images of a dead Christ may be in the Utrecht Psalter, probably before 835. [28] Other early Western examples include the Gero Cross and the reverse of the Cross of Lothair, both from the end
Near the sacristy is the Gero Crucifix, [65] 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. [66] [page needed]
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Gary Tinterow OAL (born 1953 in Louisville ) is an American art historian and curator. A specialist on 19th-century French art , Tinterow is currently Director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston .