1965.68: Transenna Relief with Animal Motif in Eight Compartments

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.68

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Transenna Relief with Animal Motif in Eight Compartments

Classification

Architectural Elements

Work Type

architectural element

Date

19th-20th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228069

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Stone

Technique

Relief

Dimensions

52 x 119.5 x 3.7 cm (20 1/2 x 47 1/16 x 1 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Paul Cassirer Gallery, Rome], sold; to The Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, D.C., gift; to Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1940, transferred; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.68

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• [Reproduction only], "Some Recent Acquisitions", Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions, (Cambridge, MA, 1965)., repr. p. 71
• Walter Cahn and Linda Seidel, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, volume 1: New England Museums, Burt Franklin & Co., Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), p. 216, fig. 228
• Susan Boyd and Gary Vikan, Questions of Authenticity Among the Arts of Byzantium, exh. cat., Dumbarton Oaks Garden Library and Rare Book Room (Washington, DC, 1981), no. 16, pp. 34-35, repr. as fig. c

Exhibition History

• Medieval Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, 11/21/1970 - 02/07/1971

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