About the Artwork
Saint Grisant
early 13th century
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Italian
Italian
Marble
Overall: 28 3/4 × 24 1/4 inches (73 × 61.6 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of G.J. DeMotte
22.145
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on panel: "GRISANT"
Provenance
Albino Cesana (Venice, Italy)
1921, Publio Podio (Bologna, Italy)
G.J. DeMotte (Paris, France)
1922-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Valentiner, Wilhelm, Dr. "New Period Rooms." Bulletin of the DIA, 4, no. 4 (January 1923): pp. 25-32, p. 25 (ill.).
Morey, C.R. Art and Archaeology 20, no. 3, 1925.
Heil, W. "Some North Italian Romanesque Marble Reliefs." Art in America 15, no. 2 (February 1927): pp. 83-89 (fig 3).
Art News, March 1931.
Morey, C.R. "The New Mediaeval Wing of The Pennsylvania Museum." Parnassus III (1931): pp. 3-5.
Ross, Marvin C. "Mediaeval Art." Brooklyn Museum Quarterly XXI, no. 4 (1934): pp. 90-91.
Lesley, E.P. Early Christian, Byzantine and Romanesque Art. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1939, p. 45, footnote 36, fig. 12 (ill.).
Julian, R. L'Eveil de la Sculpture Italienne: La Sculpture Romane dans l'Italie du Nord, 2 vols. Paris, 1945, I, pp. 256-258.
Francovich, G. de. Benedetto Antelami, architetto e scultore e l'Arte del suo tempo, 2 vols. Milan and Florence, 1952, I, p. 446, II, (fig. 500).
Cahn, Walter. "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, VII New York and New Jersey." Gesta X (1971): pp. 49-50.
Artioli, Nerio. "Sei Discusse Formelle di un Ignoto Maestro Romanica." Quaderini D'Archeologia Reggiana, no. 4 (1980): pp. 204-219.
Quintavalle, A.C. Romanico Mediopadano: Strada, Citta, Ecclesia. Exh. cat., Universita degli studi di Parma, Istituto di storia dell'arte: Centro di studi Medioevali. Parma, 1983, pp. 198-204, no. 93 (ill.).
Quintavalle, A.C. Wiligelmo e Maltilde L'officina romancia. Milan, 1991, pp. 478, 480.
Cahn, W. Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, II. Turnhout, 1999, no. 8, pp. 140-141.
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 8.
Matilde E Il Tesoro Dei Canossa: Tra Castelli, Monasteri e Città, ed. Arturo Calzona. Mantua, 2008, pp. 559-562, no. 126d (ill.).
Le Pogam, Pierre-Yves. "Collectionner la sculpture médiévale italienne." In Il Medioevo dopo il Medioevo: iconografie, tipologie e modelli: Atti del Convengo Internazionale di Studi organizzato nell'ambito del Dottorato di Ricerca in "Arti, storia e territorio dell'Italia nei rapporti con l'Europa e i paesi del Mediterraneo," (Lecce, May 10-12, 2012), ed. Raffaele Casciaro. Monteroni di Lecce, 2016, p. 298.
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Italian, Saint Grisant, early 13th century, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of G.J. DeMotte, 22.145.
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