id: 141656 accession number: 1965.246 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.246 updated: 2024-05-18 11:01:41.748000 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 33.2 x 20 x 14 cm (13 1/16 x 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.246 title: Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman 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: 33.2 x 20 x 14 cm (13 1/16 x 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 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: Early Christian and Byzantine Art in Honor of Professor Ernst Kitzinger opening date: 1979-03-17T05:00:00 Early Christian and Byzantine Art in Honor of Professor Ernst Kitzinger. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (March 17-April 22, 1979). title: Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture opening date: 2006-09-26T00:00:00 Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 26, 2006-February 19, 2007). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Metropolitan Museum of Art (9/26/2006 - 2/19/2007): "Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture"', 'opening_date': '2006-09-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and 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': '2007-05-10T00:00:00'} --- 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. (J. J. Klejman, New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 141652 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Man, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 33.4 x 21 x 11.5 cm (13 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.242 relationship: id: 141653 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 33.4 x 18.5 x 10.7 cm (13 1/8 x 7 5/16 x 4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.243 relationship: id: 141654 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 31.5 x 19 x 10.8 cm (12 3/8 x 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.244 relationship: id: 141655 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Man, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 35.2 x 21.5 x 12 cm (13 7/8 x 8 7/16 x 4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.245 relationship: id: 141657 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Man, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 33.5 x 20.1 x 10 cm (13 3/16 x 7 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.247 relationship: --- CITATIONS McColl, Donald Alexander. Early Christian Sculptures at Cleveland in Their Eastern Mediterranean Context. 1991. page number: url: 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: 407-411 url: Kitzinger, Ernst. 1978. "The Cleveland Marbles". I Monumenti Cristiani Preconstantiniani. 653-675. page number: 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 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: Mnetioned: p. iv; Reproduced: p. 89, fig. 6 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. 38-39, no. 2 url: Rumscheid, Frank, Sabine Schrenk and Kornelia Kressirer. Göttliche Ungerechtigkeit?: Strafen und Glaubensprüfungen als Themen antiker und frühchristlicher Kunst. Petersber : Dr. M. Imhof,2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 299; IV.2.3 Abb. 3: Portratbusten url: Lafli, Ergün. "Roman portrait grave steles from Nicomedia and Bithynia (northwestern Turkey)," Pontica, Muzeul de Istorie Națională și Arheologie Constanța / The Annual Journal of National History and Archeology Museum – Constanța , vol.51 (2018), 434-449. page number: Mentioned p. 436, Reproduced p. 446, fig. 11 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, 208, 216, 280; Reproduced: Textabb. 95, p. 190, Abb 179a-b (bd.2) url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.246/1965.246_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.246/1965.246_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.246/1965.246_full.tif