Christ’s Column

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Christ’s Column

Romanesque sculpture

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Western sculpture
Carolingian and Ottonian periods
…itself clearly in the so-called Christ’s Column (c. 1020) at St. Michael’s, Hildesheim, which, with its figures spiralling around the shaft, reminds one of the triumphal columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius. Originally, it was crowned by a cross. As belonging to the art associated with Bernward, one must also…
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…itself clearly in the so-called Christ’s Column (c. 1020) at St. Michael’s, Hildesheim, which, with its figures spiralling around the shaft, reminds one of the triumphal columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius. Originally, it was crowned by a cross. As belonging to the art associated with Bernward, one must also…
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