Le neuvième albâtre médiéval du retable de Saint-Michel de Bordeaux retrouvé ? À propos d’un saint Jean l’Évangéliste du Walters Art Museum de Baltimore

SCHLICHT, Markus

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SCHLICHT, Markus
Ausonius-Institut de recherche sur l'Antiquité et le Moyen âge
LabEx Sciences archéologiques de Bordeaux [LASCARBX]

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Revue archéologique de Bordeaux. 2020, vol. 111, p. 93-100

Société Archéologique de Bordeaux

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The parish church of Saint-Michel in Bordeaux is home to one of the largest and best preserved English alabaster altarpieces dedicated to the Joys of the Virgin. Seven of its nine panels were stolen in 1984. After almost forty years, in 2019, the last four panels were recovered, and the ensemble is once again complete. However, it is not entirely complete. The panel at the right end, probably depicting St. Joseph, is not a medieval work but a plaster pastiche executed certainly in the 19th century. The lost original may have found its way into a Parisian collection before 1882, before ending up in the Walter Art Gallery in Baltimore at the beginning of the 20th century. The American museum in fact possesses an English alabaster panel depicting St. John the Evangelist, which in all probability originally belonged to the Bordeaux ensemble. In addition to the matching dimensions, the very characteristic stylistic treatment of the artwork and some iconographic arguments, detailed in the article, argue in favour of this presumed identification.< Leer menos

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Alabaster

Bordeaux

late medieval sculpture

England

Nottingham

altarpiece

history of collections

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Ausonius - UMR 5607