  About the Artwork
  
  
  Bearded and turbaned, this figure gazes upwards while striding forward with his right leg. His right hand draws the skirt of his robe around him, partly concealing the pair of nails he holds in his left hand. This sculpture once belonged to a much larger figural composition, A Lamentation also in the collection of the DIA.

Long considered missing, he resurfaced in 2011 - exactly half a century after the Lamentation was acquired by the DIA. Carved almost fully in the round, the turbaned man was most likely not contigious to the main grouping which was carved in high relief. However, dendrochronological analysis, or tree-ring dating, indicates that they are from the same workshop and would have originally been grouped together in some fashion, as suggested by the strong stylistic parallels.
  
  
  Title
  Standing Figure
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1470 and 1480
  
  Artist
  Master of the Arenberg Lamentation
  
  
  
  Life Dates
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  Nationality
  
  
  
  Please note:
  Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events.
  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  Netherlandish
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
  Please note:
  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oak
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 30 1/8 × 9 5/8 × 7 11/16 inches (76.5 × 24.5 × 19.5 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Museum Purchase, Jill Ford Murray Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  2012.9
  
  
  Copyright
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