Column with a Lion at the Base
These decorative columns probably came from a ciborium or pulpit. The capital is a stylized version of an antique capital, many of which were re-used in a somewhat earlier period. The inlaid glass and stone fragmnets that decorate the column-- called "cosmati" decoration-- is...
Sculpture
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id
16552
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| contentType |
contentType
sculpture
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| stage |
stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
[Said to be from a church in Avezzano destroyed by an earthquake in 1915]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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| rightsUri |
rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| pageCount |
pageCount
1
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| source |
source
import
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| style |
style
Romanesque
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Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_27.381_Fnt_BW.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_27.381_Fnt_BW.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_27.381_Fnt_BW.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.381 |
Terms
Culture
Medieval European
Medium
stone and inlaid glass
Relations
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