Northern Italian Corpus Christi c.1500 or EarlierA large scale and emotive Corpus Christi sculpture, carved from Limewood c. 1500 or earlier. Reflecting the transition from the late Gothic to the early Renaissance, a period when religious art combined emotional expression with anatomical realism. Having distinctive flowing, naturalistic hair and beard split into two windings an early sign of the beginning of the Renaissance. The finely carved drapery suggest influences from Northern Italy or border