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Mourning Virgin

c. 1240–1260
painted wood
Overall: 43.9 x 10.9 cm (17 5/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1957.500
Location: 109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture
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Description

These traditional devotional figures at one time formed a Crucifixion group with a Crucified Christ (now lost). The ensemble may have been mounted high above the entrance to the sanctuary of a church on a barrier called a rood beam, beyond which lay people were not allowed. Crucifixion groups were common in medieval churches where they symbolized the sacrifice and real presence of Christ in the Mass.
Mourning Virgin

Mourning Virgin

c. 1240–1260

Austria, Region of Salzburg, Lungau?, 13th century

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