Object Information
Corpus of Christ, 13th century
Wood, traces of polychromy
201.9 x 165.1 cm (79 1/2 x 65 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1926.120
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Gallery 157
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report (1926) p. 64.
H. S. Scholle, "An Early Wooden Crucifix from Spain," in The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin, 20 (1926), pp. 6-47.
M. R. Rogers and O. Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection, (Chicago, 1945), no. 4, pl. 4-5.
K.-A. Wirth, "Die Entstehung des Drei-Nagel-Crucifixus, seine typengeschichtliche Entwicklung bis zur Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich und Deutschland," Ph.D. diss., Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität (1953), p. 49
P. Thoby, Le Crucifix des origines au Concile de Trent: Etude iconographique (Paris, 1959), p. 153, pl. 120, nos. 258-59.
G. Cames, "Recherches sur les origines du crucifix à trois clous," Cahiers archéologiques, 16 (1966), pp. 185-202.
R. Bastardes i Parera, Les talles romaniques del Sant Crist a Catalunya (Barcelona, 1978), pp. 375-79, pl. 377.
R. Bastardes i Parera, "El crucifix de Banyoles," Quaderns d'estudis medievals, 1 (1982), pp. 237-44.
R. Bastardes i Parera, "El crucifix de Banyoles," Quaderns d'estudis medievals, 10 (1982), p. 644.
D. Gillerman, ed. Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2: The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, Belgium, 2001), pp. 45-46.
Christina Nielsen, ed. Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30,2 (2004) pp. 59-60.
Ownership History
Church of Santa Maria dels Turers, Banyoles. Paul Tachard, Barcelona, c. 1919 [according to Bastardes i Parera 1981]. [R. Stora, Paris]; Kate S. Buckingham.