About This Artwork

Italian (Southern)

Capital with Eagles, 1230/40

Marble
46.4 x 43.2 x 29.9 cm (18 1/4 x 17 x 11 3/4 in.)
Buckingham Gothic Room Accessions Fund, 1944.405

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (catalogue by Konrad Hoffmann), 12 February – 10 May 1970, no. 46.

Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Decorative-Applied Art from Late Antiquity to the Late Gothic Style, 14 May – 14 July 1990, and the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 14 August – 14 October 1990, no. 33.

Publication History

Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago, 1945), no. 3, pl. VI.

Art News, “New Life to the Middle Ages: Chicago’s Recent Purchases,” Art News 44, 1 (February 15-28, 1945), pp. 20-22 (ill.), 29.

Art Institute of Chicago, "The Year 1944,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 39, 4 (April – May 1945), p. 3 (ill.).

Elisabeth Nau, “Staufer-Adler,” Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg 5 (1968), pp. 38-40, 52, fig. 54.

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), p. 219 (ill.).

Ownership History

Piero Tozzi, New York, by 1944 [according to Receipt #8095 in Registrar’s office]; sold to the Art Institute, 1944.