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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.47.19
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Rectangular Impost and Twin Capitals with Two Quadrupeds
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Architectural Element: Rectangular Impost and Twin Capitals (carved with two quadrupeds with leaf tails and wings)
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
1150-1175
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Northern Italy
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229365

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Limestone
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
44 x 52.2 x 16.1 cm (17 5/16 x 20 9/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: along lower edge of impost, incised, Latin: [barely legible, badly eroded: [ ]HO · CVMI[E?] · CO[P or D?][ ] [ENS?] · QVA[ ] ·DA[ ]V]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, Sold to the Fogg Art Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.47.19
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Linda Seidel, "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections: X: The Fogg Art Museum: III: Spain, Italy, the Low Countries, and Addenda", GESTA (1973), vol. XII, no. 1/2, no. 11, repr.
  • Walter Cahn and Linda Seidel, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, volume 1: New England Museums, Burt Franklin & Co., Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), no. 44, figs. 202, 203
  • Janetta Rebold Benton, Medieval Monsters: Dragons and Fantastic Creatures, exh. cat., Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, NY, 1995), p. 35 and repr. in b/w as fig. 55

Exhibition History

  • Medieval Monsters: Bizarre Beasts in the Art of the Middle Ages, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, 01/14/1995 - 04/16/1995

Verification Level

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