1922.64: Capital with the Miraculous Feeding of the 4000 and the Sacrifices of Blood and of Bread

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1922.64

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Capital with the Miraculous Feeding of the 4000 and the Sacrifices of Blood and of Bread

Classification

Architectural Elements

Work Type

architectural element

Date

c. 1140

Places

Creation Place: Europe, France, Herault

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231714

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Marble

Dimensions

39.9 x 51.8 x 31 cm (15 11/16 x 20 3/8 x 12 3/16 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

1922.64

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. 81-82, repr. as plate K, figs. 5 and 6
• "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, pp. 33-36; repr. as figs. 23, 24
• Arthur Kingsley Porter, Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads, Marshall Jones Company (Boston, MA, 1923), vol. VIII, repr. as pl. 1271
• Raymond Rey, L'Art des Cloîtres Romans: Étude Icongraphique, Édouard Privat (Toulouse, France, 1955), pp. 120-123, repr. as fig. 85
• Linda Seidel, "Romanesque Capitals from the Vicinity of Narbonne", Gesta (1972), vol. XI, no. 1, pp. 34-45, p. 44, repr. as fig. 25
• 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. 59-60; cat. no. 2b, repr. b/w figs. 4-5.
• Walter Cahn and Linda Seidel, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, volume 1: New England Museums, Burt Franklin & Co., Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), no. 17b, figs. 151, 152
• [Unidentified article], Sacred Signs (December 1981), no. 13, repr.
• 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
• Caroline Bruzelius and Jill Meredith, The Brummer Collection of Medieval Art, Duke University Press (Durham, NC, and London, England, 1991), p. 157, plate 5.2, under no. 5
• Elizabeth Bradford Smith, Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting 1800-1940, exh. cat., Palmer Museum of Art (University Park, PA, 1996), no. 50, repr. in b/w pp. 210-211
• 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
• Leslie Bussis Tait, "In Pursuit of a Lost Cloister Capital from Saint-Pons-de Thomières", Tributes to Adelaide Bennett Hagens: Manuscripts, Iconography, and the Late Medieval Viewer, ed. Pamela A. Patton and Judith K. Golden, Harvey Miller Publishers (London, 2017), pp. 325-334, p. 325, note 4, p. 328, fig. 5

Exhibition History

• Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, 01/09/1996 - 03/03/1996; Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 04/01/1996 - 05/26/1996

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