Gero Crucifix

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The Gero Crucifix, carved oak corpus (with contemporary nimbus and stem), before 986; in the Cologne Cathedral, Germany. Height 187 cm.

Gero Crucifix

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Western sculpture
Carolingian and Ottonian periods
The wooden Gero Crucifix at the cathedral of Cologne, which was carved before 986, already reveals a certain realism in the representation of the shape of the body, in contrast to the contemporary crucifix of Gerresheim (before 1000). The so-called Bernward Crucifix at Ringelheim, Germany, is between…
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The wooden Gero Crucifix at the cathedral of Cologne, which was carved before 986, already reveals a certain realism in the representation of the shape of the body, in contrast to the contemporary crucifix of Gerresheim (before 1000). The so-called Bernward Crucifix at Ringelheim, Germany, is between…
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