1922.67: Capital with the Supper at Emmaus, the Journey to Emmaus, Noli Me Tangere, and a City Gate

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1922.67

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Capital with the Supper at Emmaus, the Journey to Emmaus, Noli Me Tangere, and a City Gate

Classification

Architectural Elements

Work Type

architectural element

Date

c. 1140

Places

Creation Place: Europe, France, Herault

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231447

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Marble

Dimensions

38 x 50.8 x 34.9 cm (14 15/16 x 20 x 13 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Arthur Kingsley Porter, Cambridge, MA, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1922.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Professor Arthur Kingsley Porter

Accession Year

1922

Object Number

1922.67

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• J. Sahuc, L'Art Roman à Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, Société anonyme de l'Imprimerie générale du Midi (Montpellier, France, 1908), pp. 78-79, repr. as pl. H, figs. 2, 3, and 4
• "America Acquires Romanesque Art", The International Studio (October 1922), vol. LXXVI, no. 305, pp. 37-39, pp. 37-39, repr.
• Arthur Kingsley Porter, "Romanesque Capitals", Fogg Art Museum Notes (1922), pp. 22-36, p. 33; repr. as figs. 17, 18, 19, 20
• Arthur Kingsley Porter, "The Avignon Capital", Fogg Art Museum Notes, ed. Margaret E. Gilman (1923), pp. 2-15, p. 10, rep. as fig. 9
• Arthur Kingsley Porter, Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads, Marshall Jones Company (Boston, MA, 1923), vol. VIII, pp. 337-338; repr. as pl. 1265
• Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1931), p. 20, repr.
• Raymond Rey, L'Art des Cloîtres Romans: Étude Icongraphique, Édouard Privat (Toulouse, France, 1955), p. 125; repr. as fig. 88, p. 124
• Linda Seidel Field, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, exh. cat., ed. Stephen K. Scher, Thistle Press and Clarke and Way, Inc. (Providence, RI, 1969), no. 31, repr.
• Linda Seidel, "Romanesque Capitals from the Vicinity of Narbonne", Gesta (1972), vol. XI, no. 1, pp. 34-45, p34, repr. as figs. 2a and 2b
• Linda Seidel, "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. X: The Fogg Art Museum. II: The Rhône Valley, Provence, Languedoc, Western and Northern France", GESTA (1972), vol. XI, no. 2, pp. 58-59; cat. no. 2a, repr. b/w figs. 2-3.
• Robert P. Bergman, "Varieties of Romanesque Sculpture", Apollo (May 1978), 107, repr. p. 371 as fig. 2, 3, 4, and 5; text, pp. 372-373
• Walter Cahn and Linda Seidel, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, volume 1: New England Museums, Burt Franklin & Co., Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), no. 17a, figs. 149, 150
• Kathryn Horste, "The Passion Series from La Daurade and Problems of Narrative Composition in the Cloister Capital", Gesta (1982), vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 31-62, pp. 52, repr. p. 53 as fig. 22
• [Reproduction only], Sacred Signs, (Easter 1982)., repr. in b/w in cover
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 139, p. 123
• Charles Little and David L. Simon, "Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections. XXV. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Part V. Southwestern France", GESTA (1987), vol. XXVI no. 1, pp. 61-76, p. 69, under no. 8
• Christine Smith, ed., Before and After the End of Time: Architecture and the Year 1000, exh. cat., George Braziller (New York, NY, 2000), no. 16 in checklist; pp. 24-26, 38, repr.
• Kathryn Brush, Vastly More than Brick and Mortar: Reinventing the Fogg Art Museum in the 1920s, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge MA / New Haven, CT, 2003), pp. 54-56

Exhibition History

• The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 05/08/1969 - 06/22/1969
• Before and After the End of Time: Architecture in the Year 1000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/26/2000 - 01/23/2001

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