Ecclesia
German Sculptor (copy), Casting Workshop of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (cast maker)No image available
- Artist
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German Sculptor
(copy)
Casting Workshop of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum
(cast maker)
Berlin, 20. század első fele
- Dated
- ca. 1230 (original), 1910 (cast)
- Classification
- sculpture, plaster cast
- Medium
- plaster cast
- Dimensions
- 186 cm
- Inv.no.
- Rg.12
- Department
- Sculpture
- Current Location of the Original Artwork
- Germany, Bamberg, Cathedral
The portal of the northern side-aisle of the Bamberg Cathedral (the so-called Prince’s Portal, built around 1230) is decorated on both sides by the life-sized statues of Ecclesia and Synagoga. Ecclesia, the personification of the New Testament is a woman with triumphant bearing and a crowned head. Commissioned by the museum in 1909, the cast was made in the plaster casting workshop of Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin. It was exhibited in the Romanesque Hall in 1910. Probably lost during World War II, current whereabouts of the artwork are unknown.