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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.129
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Section of a Cassone Panel depicting Beasts in Roundels
Classification
Furniture
Work Type
chest
Date
13th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Central Italy
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310626

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wood
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
sight: 41.3 x 125.1 cm (16 1/4 x 49 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1936
Object Number
1936.129
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • W. R. Tyler, "An Early Italian Wooden Panel", Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 49-55, pp. 49-55, figs. 1, 4 (detail)
  • 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. 9, 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. 42, fig. 200
  • Christine Verzár Bornstein and Priscilla Soucek, The Meeting of Two Worlds: The Crusades and the Mediterranean Context, exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI, 1981), cat. no. 47, repr.
  • Elizabeth Bradford Smith, Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting 1800-1940, exh. cat., Palmer Museum of Art (University Park, PA, 1996), repr. in b/w p. 214-215, catalogue no. 52
  • Monique Rey-Delque, Le Crociate: L'oriente e L'occidente da Urbano II a San Luigi, 1096-1270, exh. cat., Electa (Milan, Italy, 1997), repr. p. 296, p. 399, no. 182
  • Mary Margaret (Molly) Fulghum, "Under Wraps: Byzantine Textiles as Major and Minor Arts", Studies in the Decorative Arts (Fall 2001-Winter 2002), vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 13-33, p. 22, repr. as fig. 6
  • Amanda Luyster, ed., Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece, exh. cat., Harvey Miller Publishers (London, 2023), pp. 312-313, repr. p. 310

Exhibition History

  • The Meeting of Two Worlds: The Crusades and the Mediterranean Context, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 05/09/1981 - 09/27/1981
  • 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
  • Le Crociate: l'oriente e l'occidente da Urbano II a San Luigi (1096-1270), Palazzo di Venezia, Rome, 02/14/1997 - 04/30/1997; Couvent des Jacobins de Toulouse, 05/16/1997 - 08/01/1997

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