03 — ARTWORK
St Bartholomew
- MEDIUM
- Alabaster
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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This alabaster statue was part of the former rood screen performed by Jacques Du Broeucq between 1541 and 1545 for the St Waltrude (Sainte-Waudru) collegiate church of Mons. St Waltrude (d. ca. 688 AD) is the patron saint of the Belgian city of Mons.
In 1535, the canonesses commissioned a rood screen from Du Broeucq for the collegiate church. The artist produced one of his most beautiful masterpieces. This triumphal archIn the architecture of ancient Rome, a large and usually free-standing ceremonial archway built to celebrate a military victory. Often decorated with architectural features and relief sculptures, they usually consisted of a large archway flanked by two smaller ones. The triumphal archway was revived during the Renaissance, though usually as a feature of a building rather than as an independent structure. In Renaissance painting they appear as allusion to classical antiquity. separating the sanctuarythe part of a church or temple containing the shrine; in Christian churches the choir and high altar. of the canonesses from the rest of the church was made from marbleloosely applied to any hard limestone that can be sawn into thin slabs and will take a good polish so that it is suitable for decorative work; more strictly, it refers to metamorphosed limestones whose structure has been recrystallized by heat or pressure. Marbles are widely disseminated and occur in a great variety of colours and patterns, but certain types have been particularly prized by sculptors. The most famous of Greek white marbles in the ancient world was the close-grained Pentelic, which was quarried at Mount Pentelicon in Attica. The Elgin Marbles are carved in Pentelic. Widely used also were the somewhat coarser-grained translucent white marbles from the Aegean islands of Paros and Naxos. Parian marble was used for the celebrated Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The pure white Carrara marble, quarried at Massa, Carrara, and Pietra Santa in Tuscany from the 3rd century BC, is the most famous of all sculptors' stones. It was used for the Apollo Belvedere, and was much favoured in the Renaissance, particularly by Michelangelo, who often visited the quarries to select material for his work. Neoclassical sculptors also favoured Carrara marble because of its ability to take a smooth, sleek surface, but it can look rather 'dead' compared with some of the finest Greek marbles. and alabaster, two materials that were unknown in this region in the Middle Ages. Dismantled during the Revolution, the sculptures and reliefs from the monument are scattered around the church.
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title = {St Bartholomew by DU BROEUCQ, Jacques},
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date = {2026-09-13},
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