id:			146776
accession number:	1972.20
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.20
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:31.645000

Engaged Capital with a Lion and a Basilisk, 1175–1200. Northern Italy, Emilia (Bologna?), 12th century. Marble; overall: 30.2 x 33 x 29.3 cm (11 7/8 x 13 x 11 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1972.20

title:				Engaged Capital with a Lion and a Basilisk
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series:				
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creation date:			1175–1200
creation date earliest:		1175
creation date latest:		1199
current location:		106B Romanesque & Gothic Sculpture
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Northern Italy, Emilia (Bologna?), 12th century
technique:	marble
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Romanesque
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 30.2 x 33 x 29.3 cm (11 7/8 x 13 x 11 9/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	BASILISC.
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1972
	opening date:   1973-02-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1972</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

	title:		Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
	opening date:   1975-09-24T04:00:00
	<i>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

	title:		Images of the Mind
	opening date:   1987-07-07T04:00:00
	<i>Images of the Mind</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Juliana Armour Ferguson, Huntington, Long Island, New York
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	(Edward R. Lubin, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: -1972
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1972-
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		146787
	Engaged Capital with Figures of a Man and of an Eagle, 1175-1200. Northern Italy, Emilia (Bologna?), 12th century. Marble; overall: 30.2 x 32.4 x 33 cm (11 7/8 x 12 3/4 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1972.21
	relationship: 	

	id: 		146798
	Fragment of a Capital with the Ox of Saint Luke, c. 1175-1200. Northern Italy, Emilia (Bologna?), 12th century. Marble; overall: 24.5 x 25.1 x 11.5 cm (9 5/8 x 9 7/8 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1972.22
	relationship: 	

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 57
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n77

	Wixom, William D. “Eleven Additions to the Medieval Collection.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 3 (Mar/April 1979): 87–151.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 89-90, fig. 6-7
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159622

	Cahn, Walter, and Linda Seidel<em>. Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections</em>. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999.
	page number: 	Vol. II, no. B III 13, 161-63
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	Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 76-79; Reproduced: p. 77
	url:		

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IMAGES

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