Vintage Bronze Old Roma Art Deco Crucifix
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Old Roma Art Deco Crucifix is cut in flat planes rather than modelled in curves. The arms are elongated hexagons with a chevron incised along each one, the upright tapers to a point like a blade, and the top rises in a faceted spire. Against all that geometry the corpus is small and quiet, and the contrast is the whole design.
The pattern is known as Old Roma, and the Art Deco handling places the original in the early decades of the last century, when Roman workshops were producing devotional metalwork in the modern taste. It was a genuine change of mind about sacred art: after a century of heavy naturalism, designers stripped the crucifix back to line and plane and let the figure carry the feeling alone. The result reads as clean and severe rather than cold, and it appeals to people who find the more ornate crucifixes hard to pray with. At just under an inch and a half it sits easily at the end of a rosary.
The Old Roma crucifix was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves its vintage character.
- Made in the USA
- Artisan-cast from an antique original
- Finished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.
- Buy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace
- Add a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear
- Arrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Old Roma Art Deco Crucifix is cut in flat planes rather than modelled in curves. The arms are elongated hexagons with a chevron incised along each one, the upright tapers to a point like a blade, and the top rises in a faceted spire. Against all that geometry the corpus is small and quiet, and the contrast is the whole design.
The pattern is known as Old Roma, and the Art Deco handling places the original in the early decades of the last century, when Roman workshops were producing devotional metalwork in the modern taste. It was a genuine change of mind about sacred art: after a century of heavy naturalism, designers stripped the crucifix back to line and plane and let the figure carry the feeling alone. The result reads as clean and severe rather than cold, and it appeals to people who find the more ornate crucifixes hard to pray with. At just under an inch and a half it sits easily at the end of a rosary.
The Old Roma crucifix was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves its vintage character.
- Made in the USA
- Artisan-cast from an antique original
- Finished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.
- Buy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace
- Add a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear
- Arrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box
