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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.308.1
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Altar Colonette with Saint Paul
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
c. 1225-1250
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Spain, Sahagun
Culture
Spanish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228197

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble, microsparite
Dimensions
91 x 21.7 x 22.4 cm (35 13/16 x 8 9/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on St. Paul's scroll, incised: FR[ATRE]S / VIDE / TE Q [UOMOD]O / CAU / TE ABV / LETIS [from Ephesians 5:15, "Brethren, see then that you walk circumspectly."]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Monastery of San Benito, Sahagún. [Unidentified dealer, Madrid], sold; to Arthur Kingsley Porter, Cambridge, 1925, by descent?; to Lucy Wallace Porter, his wife, Cambridge, 1933, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Lucy Wallace Porter
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.308.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Manuel Gómez-Moreno, Catálogo Monumental de España: Provincia de León, Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes (Madrid, Spain, 1925), p. 348
  • Arthur Kingsley Porter, Spanish Romanesque Sculpture, Pegasus Press and Pantheon Books (Paris, France and Florence, Italy, 1928), vol. II, p. 8, repr. as pl. 120
  • Frederick B. Deknatel, "Sculptured Columns from Sahagún and the Amiens Style in Spain", Medieval Studies in Memory of Kingsley Porter, ed. Wilhelm R. W. Koehler, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1939), pp. 301-310, pp. 301-310, repr. as fig. 3
  • [Unidentified article], Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions, 1962-1963, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1964), p. 28, repr.
  • "Gothic Sculpture in American Collections: The Checklist: I: The New England Museums", GESTA, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman (1980), vol. XIX, no. 2, no. 70, repr.
  • Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 141 pp. 176-177, repr.
  • Elizabeth Bradford Smith, Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting 1800-1940, exh. cat., Palmer Museum of Art (University Park, PA, 1996), p. 178

Exhibition History

  • Medieval Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, 11/21/1970 - 02/07/1971

Verification Level

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