Netherlands, Elsloo, 16th century / c. 1515–20
Saint Andrew
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Saint Andrew as sculpture (Netherlands, Elsloo, 16th century · c. 1515–20).
Traces of paint found on this sculpture suggest that at one point it was painted.
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The museum identifies this sculpture as oak with traces of paint and credits Master of Elsloo (Netherlandish).
The museum's collection notes: Apostle figures such as this were made in large numbers in the eastern Netherlands during the early 1500s. This figure of Saint Andrew, identified by his X-shaped cross, was undoubtedly a single figure from an apostle series. It may have been used above a choir stall in a church, or else part of an apostelbalk , a wooden beam with a figure of Christ at the center. These beams were mounted high above the interior of the church to separate the nave (used by lay people) from the sanctuary, accessible only to the clergy. The artist is named after a multicolored group of Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child, now in the Augustinuskerk in Elsloo, th
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