About the Artwork
Bow Fibula
between 500 and 550
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Italian
Unknown
Gilt bronze, semi-precious stones
Overall: 9 1/4 × 5 × 1 3/4 inches (23.5 × 12.7 × 4.4 cm)
Metalwork
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Prof. Luigi Grassi
26.159
Public Domain
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Provenance
(Luigi Grassi, Florence, Italy)
1926-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Kühn, H. "A Notable Ostrogoth Bow-Fibula." The Art Quarterly 1, no. 4 (1938): pp. 268-272; p. 268, fig. 1 (ill.).
Calkins, R. A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Century. Exh. cat. Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University. Ithaca, 1968, no. 20, p. 112.
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Italian, Bow Fibula, between 500 and 550, gilt bronze, semi-precious stones. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Prof. Luigi Grassi, 26.159.
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