id: 141651 accession number: 1965.241 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.241 updated: 2024-04-13 11:22:53.314000 The Good Shepherd, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 49.5 x 26 x 16.2 cm (19 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.241 title: The Good Shepherd title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 280–90 CE creation date earliest: 280 creation date latest: 290 current location: 104 Late Antiquity creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian technique: marble department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Early Christian type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 49.5 x 26 x 16.2 cm (19 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions opening date: 1966-09-10T04:00:00 Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). title: Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art opening date: 2007-11-18T00:00:00 Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (November 18, 2007-March 30, 2008). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (11/18/2007 - 3/30/2008): "Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art", ex. cat. no. 21, p. 190-191.', 'opening_date': '2007-11-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"', 'opening_date': '2009-02-13T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE According to William Wixom, an unconfirmed report tells us that the entire group (1965.237-1965.247) was found in a single, huge pithos or jar. date: footnotes: citations: (J. J. Klejman, New York) date: -1965 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1965- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 141650 Jonah Praying, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 47.5 x 14.8 x 20.3 cm (18 11/16 x 5 13/16 x 8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.240 relationship: id: 141645 Jonah Under the Gourd Vine, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 32.3 x 46.3 x 18 cm (12 11/16 x 18 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.239 relationship: id: 141643 Jonah Swallowed, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 50.4 x 15.5 x 26.9 cm (19 13/16 x 6 1/8 x 10 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.237 relationship: id: 141644 Jonah Cast Up, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 41.5 x 36 x 18.5 cm (16 5/16 x 14 3/16 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.238 relationship: --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 36 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n60 “Early Christian Sculptures at Cleveland.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 3 (March 1967): 67–88. page number: Reproduced: Cover, p. 77, 86; Mentioned: p. 75, 77, figs. 23, 24 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152146 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 36 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n58 Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Margaret English Frazer, and Kurt Weitzmann. Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art Third to Seventh Century. New York: The Museum, 1977. page number: Mentioned: p. 407-411 url: Weitzmann, Kurt, and Margaret English Frazer. Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art Third to Seventh Century ; Based on the Catalogue to the Exhibition "Age of Spirituality", Metropolitan Museum New York, 1977. [New York, NY]: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977. page number: pp. 406-411 url: https://books.google.com/books?id=efLuB7QPDm8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=cleveland&f=false Kitzinger, Ernst. 1978. "The Cleveland Marbles". I Monumenti Cristiani Preconstantiniani. page number: Mentioned: p. 653-675 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 34 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n54 McColl, Donald Alexander. Early Christian Sculptures at Cleveland in Their Eastern Mediterranean Context. 1991. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 14 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n29 Lehman, Karen M. "Sacred and Profane Hellenizing Marbles of the Late Third Century Roman Empire: Secular Portraits and Religious Narrative Sculptures in the Cleveland Museum of Art Reviewed in the Cultural Context." M.A. thesis, Kent State University, 2004. page number: Mentioned: p. v; Reproduced: p. 105; fig, 22 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 34-37, no. 1 url: Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 20 - 21 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 261 url: Hornik, Heidi J. "Freestanding Sculpture." In The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art.Jensen, Robin Margaret Jensen and Mark D. Ellison, editors. Abingdon Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 76. fig. 5.5 url: Rumscheid, Frank, Sabine Schrenk and Kornelia Kressirer. Göttliche Ungerechtigkeit?: Strafen und Glaubensprüfungen als Themen antiker und frühchristlicher Kunst. Petersberg: Dr. M. Imhof, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 305; IV.2.3; Abb. 15 url: Morgan, Faith Pennick. Dress and Personal Appearance in Late Antiquity: The Clothing of the Middle and Lower Classes. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018, 145-146. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 145-146, fig. 175 url: Walker, Alicia. "Iconomachy in Byzantium." In The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World. Melanie Gibson, editor. London: Gingko, 2019. page number: Reproduced: p. 89, fig. 4; Mentioned: p. 90 url: Bol, Peter, Carola Reinsberg, Renate Bol, D. Kreikenbom, Hans-Ulrich Cain, Heike Richter, and Britta Özen-Kleine. Plastik der römischen Kaiserzeit vom Regierungsantritt des Antoninus Pius bis zum Ende der Antike. Worms : Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, 2019. page number: Mentioned: p. 189, 191, 193-5; Reproduced: Abb. 181 (bd.2) url: Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane, and Gabriele Finaldi. A Guide to Christian Art. 2020, 68. page number: Reproduced: p. 68, fig. 7. url: Sánchez Galera, José María, and Gregorio Luri Medrano. La edad de las nueces: los niños en el Imperio Romano. Madrid : Ediciones Encuentro S.A., 2021. page number: Reproduced: p. 282, fig. 38 url: Becherer, Joseph Antenucci, and Henry Luttikhuizen. Christ Among Us: Sculptures of Jesus Across the History of Art. Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2022. page number: Mentioned: p. 19; reproduced: p. 18, 123, no.1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.241/1965.241_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.241/1965.241_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.241/1965.241_full.tif