
- St Stephen
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St Stephen
- Object:
Plaster cast
- Place of origin:
England (made)
London (cast) - Date:
ca. 1505 (made)
ca. 1868 (cast) - Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Plaster cast
- Museum number:
REPRO.1868-37
- Gallery location:
Medieval & Renaissance, Room 64b, The Simon Sainsbury Gallery, case WE
This figure is a plaster cast copy taken from a statue in the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey, London. Ninety-five of the original images of saints remain in-situ, representing the most important surviving example of early sixteenth-century architectural sculpture in England. Casts like these were intended to provide easy access to great works of art, providing models for architects and craftspeople to study at a time when there was renewed interest in medieval art.