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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1922.66
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Capital with Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, the Feast in the House of Simon, and a Kitchen Scene
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
c. 1135
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Herault
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231715

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Dimensions
37 x 34.8 x 38.5 cm (14 9/16 x 13 11/16 x 15 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
1922.66
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 79-80, repr. as pl. J, figs. 1 and 2
  • "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. 36; repr. as figs. 25, 26, 27, 28
  • Arthur Kingsley Porter, "The Avignon Capital", Fogg Art Museum Notes, ed. Margaret E. Gilman (1923), pp. 2-15, p. 10, repr. as fig. 8
  • Arthur Kingsley Porter, Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads, Marshall Jones Company (Boston, MA, 1923), vol. VIII, pp. 337-339; repr. as pl. 1266
  • Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1931), p. 21, repr.
  • Arts of the Middle Ages, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1940), no. 167, repr. in b/w as pl. X
  • 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
  • Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 5 pp. 11-15, repr., no. 85 p. 120
  • 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

  • Arts of the Middle Ages, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/17/1940 - 03/24/1940
  • Art of the Romanesque, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Notre Dame, 11/06/1960 - 12/04/1960

Verification Level

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