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Astronomical and Geometrical Figures, Animals, and a Man
Astronomical and Geometrical Figures, Animals, and a Man

Astronomical and Geometrical Figures, Animals, and a Man

Former TitleMathematical Forms and Horoscope
Artist Anonymous French Masters (French, 13th century)
Dateca. 1250
MediumBrown ink on vellum
DimensionsUnframed: 10 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches (26.04 x 22.23 cm)
Framed: 21 x 17 x 1 1/4 inches (53.34 x 43.18 x 3.18 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number63-29
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

N/A

Provenance

Purchased from Richard H. Zinser, New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1963.

Published References

“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums,” The Art Quarterly 26, no. 4 (Winter 1963): 497, (repro.), as Mathematical Forms and Horoscope.

H. Hagius, “A Thirteenth-Century Page of Astronomical and Geometrical Figures with Drawings of Animals and a Man,” Bulletin (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) 4, no. 11 (August 1970): 25-39, (repro.), as Manuscript page.

R. Branner, “A Thirteenth-Century Page of Astronomical and Geometrical Figures with Drawings of Animals and a Man: Note on the Style of the Kansas City Leaf,” Bulletin (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) 5, no. 1 (August 1971): 24-30, (repro.), as A Thirteenth-Century Page of Astronomical and Geometrical Figures with Drawings of Animals and a Man.

H. Hagius, “Further Observations on Thirteenth-Century Astronomical and Geometrical Page,” Bulletin (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) 5, no. 1 (August 1971): 32-35, (repro.), as Thirteenth-Century Astronomical and Geometrical Page.

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), 183, (repro.), as Sheet of Astronomical and Geometrical Figures with Drawing of Animals and a Man.

 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), 133, (repro.), as Astronomical and Geometrical Figures, Animals, and a Man.

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