{{Short description|Series of sculptures by John Hogan}} {{italic title}} '''''The Dead Christ''''' or '''''The Redeemer in Death''''' is a statue of Jesus Christ executed in white Carrara marble by the Irish sculptor John Hogan (1800–1858).<ref>{{cite journal |url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/20516108 | title = John Hogan: Greatest of Irish Sculptors | first = Maura | last = Prunty | journal = The Irish Monthly | volume = 78 | issue = 919 | date = January 1950 | pages = 41–43 | publisher = Irish Jesuit Province}}</ref> The work was first sculpted by Hogan when he was based in Rome, alongside other artists such as sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844).<ref>{{cite book | chapter = John Hogan, Sculptor | chapter-url = https://www.libraryireland.com/irishartists/john-hogan.php | title = A Dictionary of Irish Artists | first = Walter G. |last = Strickland | date = 1913 | publisher = Maunsel & Co. | place = Dublin}}</ref> Thorvaldsen reputedly described the statue as Hogan's "masterpiece".<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.dib.ie/biography/hogan-john-a4051 | publisher = Royal Irish Academy | work = Dictionary of Irish Biography | title = Hogan, John | date = October 2009 | accessdate = 10 February 2024 | doi = 10.3318/dib.004051.v1 | first = Rebecca | last = Minch }}</ref> In all, Hogan carved three versions of the statue in marble: * the first (1829) is located in St. Teresa's Carmelite Church, Dublin, Ireland<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/50910134/st-theresas-carmelite-church-clarendon-street-johnsons-court-dublin-2-dublin | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website = buildingsofireland.ie | title = St. Theresa's Carmelite Church, Clarendon Street, Johnson's Court, Dublin 2, Dublin | accessdate = 30 September 2022 }}</ref> * the second (1833) in St. Finbarr's (South) Church, Cork, Ireland<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20514734/st-finbarrs-south-dunbar-street-cork-city-cork-city-cork | publisher = National Inventory of Architectural Heritage | website = buildingsofireland.ie | title = St Finbarr's South, Dunbar Street, Cork City, Cork | accessdate = 30 September 2022 }}</ref> * the third and final (1854) is located in the Basilica of St. John the Baptist, St. John's, Newfoundland<ref>{{cite journal |jstor = 20556929 | title = John Hogan and the Catholic Religious Revival | first = John | last = Turpin | journal = The Maynooth Review | volume = 5 | issue = 1 | date = May 1979 | pages = 64–70 | publisher = NUIM}}</ref>
A fourth statue, a plaster cast, is on display in the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland. It was acquired from Hogan's widow, Cornelia Bevigani, by William Horatio Crawford.<ref>{{Cite tweet |author= Crawford Art Gallery |author-link=Crawford Art Gallery |user= CrawfordArtGall |number= 979749701770776576 |date= 30 March 2018 |title= Dating to 1832, The Dead Christ by John Hogan is one of four versions the sculptor made |language= en |access-date= 10 February 2024 }}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery mode=packed> Image:The Dead Christ St. teresa's Dublin.jpg | ''The Dead Christ'' (1829, Carrara marble), at St. Teresa's Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland Image:DeadChristcork.jpg | ''The Dead Christ'' (1833, Carrara marble), at St. Finbarr's South Church in Cork, Ireland Image:Deadchrist.jpg | ''The Dead Christ'' (1854, Carrara marble), at the Basilica of St. John the Baptist in St. John's, Newfoundland File:John Hogan Dead Christ Crawford Municipal Art Gallery Cork.jpg | ''The Dead Christ'' (plaster), at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland </gallery>
==See also== * List of statues of Jesus * ''Veiled Christ''
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