Window Arcade
CultureVenetian
Dateca. 1330-1340
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 126 × 152 inches (320.04 × 386.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Laura Nelson Kirkwood Residuary Trust
Object number44-38
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
Exhibition HistoryNo known exhibition
history is present at this time.
This elegant window is typical of those on the facades of medieval palaces in Venice, opening out onto the canals of the city. Such a window would have graced the piano nobile-the principal floor-of a palace, one story above the entrance level.
With Simonetti, by October 13, 1936;
Purchased from Simonetti, through Jandolo, by Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York, stock no. P13134, October 13, 1936-September 11, 1944 [1];
Purchased from Brummer, through Harold Woodbury Parsons and the generosity of the Laura Nelson Kirkwood Residuary Trust, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.
NOTES:
[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archive, Brummer Gallery Records, Greek and Roman marbles and stones, Object inventory card number P13134. This is most likely either the dealer Ugo Jandolo or his son, Aldo Jandolo.
Dorothy Gillerman, Gothic Sculpture in America: II The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001), 219-20.
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