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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, [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]
The large wooden crucifix was a German innovation at the very start of the period, as were free-standing statues of the enthroned Madonna. High relief was the dominant sculptural mode of the period. Master of Pedret , The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, apse fresco from Tredòs, Val d'Aran , Catalonia, Spain, c. 1100 ...
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
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 ...
List of museums in Houston, Texas; 0–9. 1940 Air Terminal Museum; A. American Cowboy Museum; American Indian Genocide Museum; ArtCar Museum; B. Bayou Bend ...
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 ...