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Screen with Depiction of Jason and the Golden Fleece
Screen with Depiction of Jason and the Golden Fleece

Screen with Depiction of Jason and the Golden Fleece

CultureRoman
Date4th-5th century C.E.
MediumLimestone
DimensionsOverall: 41 3/4 × 34 3/8 × 5 1/2 inches (106.05 × 87.3 × 13.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number41-36
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 105
Collections
DescriptionA big relief made of "calcaire coquille" (limestone with fragments of shells) representing two women, two men, and two children grouped about a tree round which a snake is coiled. In the tree a quadruped. In the upper right hand corner, a boat. Framed by a geometrical pattern.Exhibition History

The Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century,

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 19, 1977-February 12, 1978.

Provenance

With Margot Mallon, New York, by 1941;

 

Purchased from Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.
Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 33.

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 43.

 

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 56.

 

Malcolm Bell, “214. Relief with Jason and the Golden Fleece,” in The Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century, ed. Kurt Weitzmann, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977), 238-239. 

 

Malcolm Bell, “A Coptic Jason Relief,” Gesta 18, no. 1 (1979): 45-52.

 

Alexandra Lorquin, “La conquêt de la Toison d’or,” Revue du Louvre. La revue des musées de France 43, no. 3 (1993): 21, 23, fig. 10.

 

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 125.

Johannes Bergemann, Demos und Thanatos: Untersuchungen zum Wertsystem der Polis im Spiegel der attischen Grabreliefs des 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. und zur Funktion der gleichzeitigen Grabbauten (Munich: Biering und Brinkmann, 1997), 113n794.

 

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 21, fig. 54.

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