Capital with Man Fighting Lion (A) and Riding Griffin (B)

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1180

Italian; possibly Lombardy or Tuscany

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Lombard
Title: Capital with Man Fighting Lion (A) and Riding Griffin (B)
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1175–1185
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 23.5 × 44.5 × 17.8 cm (9 1/4 × 17 1/2 × 7 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1954.20
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Madison, Wisconsin, Elvehjem Art Center (now Chazen Museum of Art), University of Wisconsin, 1970.
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, cat. 30.

R. Stora and Company, New York, by 1954 [according to Receipt X1190 in Registrar’s office]; sold to the Art Institute, 1954 [according to source cited above].

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Capital with Man Fighting Lion (A) and Riding Griffin (B)

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