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| Keywords: French - Head of an Old Testament King - Walters 2722.jpg Carved for the abbey church of Saint-Denis outside Paris this Old Testament king presented a model of sacred rulership for the French kings who served as the patrons of the monastery The head from a pier column figure on the building's west façade was broken off during the French Revolution when the royal burial church became a key target for vandalism This head reflects a moment of artistic transition The carver still works in the abstracted Romanesque style but incorporates elements based on the observation of nature such as the soft rounding of the face and the wavy curls of hair Artists would continue to expland upon this interest in naturalism in the Gothic and Renaissance periods ca 1140 Medieval limestone cm 36 19 21 8 accession number 27 22 20152 Raoul Heilbronner Paris Dikran Kelekian Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1911 An Exhibition of the Treasures of The Walters Art Gallery The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Pace Wildenstein Gallery New York; Smith College Museum of Art Northampton 1967 Treasures from Medieval France The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 1966-1967 The Royal Abbey of St Denis at the Time of Abbot Suger 1125-1151 The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 1981 Set in Stone The Face in Medieval Sculpture The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 2006-2007 place of origin Abbey Church of Saint-Denis in Seine-Saint-Denis France Walters Art Museum license Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
