1922.64: Capital with the Miraculous Feeding of the 4000 and the Sacrifices of Blood and of Bread
Architectural Elements
This object does not yet have a description.
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
Verification Level
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