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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.47.35
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Architectural Support in the Form of a Lion
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Marble Lion Attached to a Square Block
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
1100-1125
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Southern Italy
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229469

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
33.5 x 30.5 x 66.8 cm (13 3/16 x 12 x 26 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, Sold to the Fogg Art Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.47.35
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 15, 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. 48, fig. 207

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