1936.17: Blessing Figure Holding Book
Architectural Elements
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1936.17
- People
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Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Spanish Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Blessing Figure Holding Book
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Architectural Relief
- Classification
- Architectural Elements
- Work Type
- architectural element
- Date
- c. 1125-1150
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Northern Italy
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/231207
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Polychromed marble
- Dimensions
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57 x 22.5 x 10.6 cm (22 7/16 x 8 7/8 x 4 3/16 in.)
wood frame: 69 x 35.7 x 10.6 cm (27 3/16 x 14 1/16 x 4 3/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in image, incised, Latin: PETRUS: MO / NNINCI: ET / PR: IUSSIT / HC OPUS FACE / RE [per Seidel]
- inscription: l.r. of frame, white ink, handwritten: 6590 / [IMSSSS?]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Arthur Sachs, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1936
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Arthur Sachs, Class of 1901
- Accession Year
- 1936
- Object Number
- 1936.17
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 10, repr.
Verification Level
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