Crucified Christ (c. 1500): Art, History and Details

Crucified Christ (c. 1500) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Severo da Ravenna (Italian, c. 1496–c. 1543).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The highly finished surface of this sculpture, including the back, suggests it belonged to a refined collector. Small sculptures would often be held to admire details such as the strands of hair streaming onto Christ’s shoulders, the prominent veins in his forearms, and the intricate knotted cloth at his side.

Object facts

• Title: Crucified Christ
• Date: c. 1500
• Creator attribution: Severo da Ravenna (Italian, c. 1496–c. 1543)
• Culture: Italy, Ravenna, 16th century
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 28.6 x 23.5 x 5.5 cm (11 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1982.127

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3–55.
• Winter, Patrick M. de. “Recent Accessions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts, Part I: Incorporating Notes on the Sculptor Severo Da Ravenna.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 3 (March 1986): 74–138.
• Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.