id: 96321 accession number: 1916.2052 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.2052 updated: 2020-11-04 19:14:51.139000 Engaged Capitals, 1400s. Southern France, Abbey of Larreule, near Tarbes, 15th century. Limestone; overall: 39.4 x 39.4 x 54 cm (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 21 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1916.2052 title: Engaged Capitals title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1400s creation date earliest: 1400 creation date latest: 1499 current location: creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Southern France, Abbey of Larreule, near Tarbes, 15th century technique: limestone department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 39.4 x 39.4 x 54 cm (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 21 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE probably from the Abbey of Larreule near Tarbes in Southern France. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This capital belongs to a surviving group including other architectural fragments that once decorated the cloister of the Abbey of Larreule. A cloister was a covered walkway or arcade, usually around all four sides of a square area of grass (the "cloister garth"). The seclusion of the cloister was the monks’ exclusive domain, off limits to others. Here, the monks were supposed to pray, study, meditate, and exercise in privacy and solitude. Such cloister capitals served both to instruct the monks and as a focus for their devotions. Other capitals in this series are installed in the Jardin Massey at Tarbes, near the original abbey. An arch from Larreule has been assembled with other associated French capitals at The Cloisters in New York. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 26-37. page number: Mentioned: p. 27 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136070 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.2052/1916.2052_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.2052/1916.2052_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.2052/1916.2052_full.tif