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Capital: Two Heads between Foliate Forms

Capital: Two Heads between Foliate Forms, ca. 1100

  • French

Limestone

  • Overall: 25 1/2 × 31 1/2 inches (64.8 × 80 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

25.84

On View

  • Romanesque Hall W151

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Details

Convent of Loches sur la Claise (Department Indre et Loire, France)

(A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York, New York, USA)

1925-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

R.P. "Romanesque Capitals Acquired." Bulletin of the DIA 7, no. 1 (October, 1925): pp. 8-10, p. 8 (ill.).

French, Capital: Two Heads between Foliate Forms, ca. 1100, limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 25.84.

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