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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.99.B
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Abacus with Animals and Foliage
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
c. 1160-1175
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Spain, Palencia
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231358

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
12.5 x 77 x 48.5 cm (4 15/16 x 30 5/16 x 19 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Republic of Spain, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933. Given through the Museo Arqueologico Nacional and Arthur Kingsley Porter

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Republic of Spain through the Museo Arqueologico Nacional and Professor Arthur Kingsley Porter
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.99.B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Accessions", Fogg Art Museum Annual Report (1933), p. 3
  • "Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts", Parnassus (November 1933), vol. V, no. VI, p. 14, p. 14
  • "A Gift of Romanesque Sculpture from the Spanish Government", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum (March 1934), vol. III, no. 2, pp. 14-17
  • Robert Calkins, A Medieval Treasury, exh. cat., Cornell University, Office of University Publications (Ithaca, NY, 1968), no. 49, pp. 134-135, repr.
  • 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. 5, 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. 55, fig. 216
  • Christine Smith, ed., Before and After the End of Time: Architecture and the Year 1000, exh. cat., George Braziller (New York, NY, 2000), p. 52

Exhibition History

  • A Medieval Treasury: an exhibition of medieval art from the third to the sixteen, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Ithaca, 10/08/1968 - 11/03/1968; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, 11/10/1968 - 12/08/1968

Verification Level

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