About This Artwork

Italian, Lombardy or Apulia

Capital with Bull and Worker, 1100/25

Marble
25.4 x 31.8 x 15.2 cm (10 x 12 1/2 x 6 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1945.186

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, “The Year 1945,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 40, 4 (April – May 1946), p. 22 (ill.).

Walter Cahn, “Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. XIII. Chicago, Bloomington, and St. Louis,” Gesta 13, 2 (1974), p. 47, no. 3, fig. 5.

Walter Cahn et al, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, vol 2 (Turnhout, Belgium, 1999), p. 197.

Ownership History

Piero Tozzi, New York, by 1945 [according to Receipt #8414 in Registrar’s office]; sold to the Art Institute, 1945 [according to source cited above].