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Saint Andrew
The collection record classifies this work as sculpture. It is dated c. 1515–20. Recorded culture or place: Netherlands, Elsloo, 16th century.
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- Museum title
- Saint Andrew
- Date
- c. 1515–20
- Culture / origin
- Netherlands, Elsloo, 16th century
- Materials and technique
- oak with traces of paint
- Dimensions
- Overall: 70.8 x 27 cm (27 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Master of Elsloo (Netherlandish)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1938.169
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Apostle figures such as this were made in large numbers in the eastern Netherlands during the early 1500s. This figure of Saint Andrew, identified by his X-shaped cross, was undoubtedly a single figure from an apostle series. It may have been used above a choir stall in a church, or else part of an apostelbalk, a wooden beam with a figure of Christ at the center. These beams were mounted high above the interior of the church to separate the nave (used by lay people) from the sanctuary, accessible only to the clergy. The artist is named after a multicolored group of Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child, now in the Augustinuskerk in Elsloo, the Netherlands. The sculptor is probably Jan van Oel, who was working in and around Roermond in about 1500–1520. Most of the sculptures attributed to this master are in churches in Belgium and Dutch Limburg and in the neighboring German region.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. · CC0
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