MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR, German
(active around 1300)

Prophets

c. 1300
Stone
Cathedral, Strasbourg

These prophets are on right jamb of the central west portal of the Cathedral. Their faces are engulfed in bushy beards with carefully contrived curls, after the manner of the Joseph Master, their bodies are masked by bulky drapery which descends in tumbling dramatic folds, and their whole expression has an intensity which may have been inspired by earlier Gothic sculpture of Strasbourg.