Vintage Bronze Slender Gothic Crucifix
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Slender Gothic Crucifix is more column than cross. The arms are short and squared, tipped with small knops, and the corpus is pressed flat into the shaft so that the figure and the wood read as a single upright, with banded and grooved ornament beneath the feet finishing the piece like the base of a pillar.
That compression is a Gothic habit of mind. Medieval builders drew the body of Christ into the architecture of the church itself, and a nineteenth-century European cross like this one inherits the instinct, making the figure part of the structure rather than something hung upon it. The result reads as tall and quiet, upright in the hand, better suited to steady daily prayer than to display. The shallow detail along the shaft comes up a little differently on every casting, since each one is finished by hand.
The slender Gothic crucifix was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the cross's 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 Slender Gothic Crucifix is more column than cross. The arms are short and squared, tipped with small knops, and the corpus is pressed flat into the shaft so that the figure and the wood read as a single upright, with banded and grooved ornament beneath the feet finishing the piece like the base of a pillar.
That compression is a Gothic habit of mind. Medieval builders drew the body of Christ into the architecture of the church itself, and a nineteenth-century European cross like this one inherits the instinct, making the figure part of the structure rather than something hung upon it. The result reads as tall and quiet, upright in the hand, better suited to steady daily prayer than to display. The shallow detail along the shaft comes up a little differently on every casting, since each one is finished by hand.
The slender Gothic crucifix was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the cross's 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
