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Spanish Medieval Art, The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 15, 1954-January 30, 1955, no. 31, as Three Apostles.
Songs of Glory: Medieval Art from 900-1500, Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, January 22-April 29, 1985, no. 1, as Apostle Relief, with the Apostles Paul, Andrew, and James.
Catalonia and the Mediterranean at the Height of the Romanesque, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, February 28, 2008-May 18, 2008, no. 10, as Relieve con tres apóstoles: Pablo, Andrés y Santiago.
Cathedral of St. Peter, Vic, Catalonia, Spain, ca. 1170-possibly 1791 [1];
Señor Castell estate, near Vic, Spain, by 1928 [2];
Possibly purchased from Castell, through José Gudiol y Ricart (1904-1985) and Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932 [3].
NOTES:
[1] The cathedral was destroyed in 1791 and its decorative stones were repurposed for other building projects in the surrounding area. It is likely this relief was one of these repurposed pieces. See Marilyn Stokstad, “Three Apostles from Vich,” Bulletin of the Nelson Gallery (August 1970): 2-24.
[2] See A. Kingsley Porter, Spanish Romanesque Sculpture, vol. 1 (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1928), 73.
[3] In a payment request submitted to the Nelson-Atkins, purchasing agent Harold Woodbury Parsons included the following note: “This included 10% commission to Señor Josep Gudiol, Director of the Museum of Vich, who brought the relief to our notice and negotiated the sale, and managed its exportation.” Parsons does not identify the seller. RG80/05 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Records, box 4, folder 20, Nelson-Atkins Archives. José Gudiol (1904-1985) was a Spanish art historian and curator of the Episcopal Museum in Vic, Spain.
Arthur Kingsley Porter, Spanish Romanesque Sculpture, vol. 1 (Florence: Pantheon, 1928), 73, (repro.), as Fragment from Altar of the Cathedral, The Apostles Paul, Andrew, and James.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 84-85, (repro.), as Apostle Relief.
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), 106, (repro.), as Apostle Relief.
Géza De Francovich, Benedetto Antelami: architetto e scultore, e l'arte del suo temp, vol. 1 (Milan: Electa, 1952), 84-85n115.
Joan Ainaud, “Dades inèdites sobre la Catedral Romànica de Vich,” Ausa 5 (1953): 207, as Sant Pau, Sant Andreu, i Sant Jaume.
Spanish Medieval Art, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1954), unpaginated, as Three Apostles.
“Ce la tour vient d’entrer au Metropolitan de New York,” Connaissance des arts 102 (August 1960): 53, (repro.), as Les Trois Apôtres.
Marilyn Stokstad, “Three Apostles from Vich,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 11 (August 1970): 5-7, 9, 11, 17, 19, 21, 22n1, 23n8, (repro.).
Marilyn Stokstad, “Romanesque and Gothic Art,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 486, 488, (repro.), as Three Apostles in relief: SS. Paul, Andrew and James.
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), 62, (repro.), as Three Apostles.
Marilyn Stokstad, “Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. XV. Kansas City, Missouri and Lawrence, Kansas.” Gesta 16, no. 1 (1977): 52, (repro.), as Relief with Three Apostles.
Paul Williamson, Catalogue of Romanesque Sculpture (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983), 102, 116, (repro.).
David Mickenberg, Songs of Glory: Medieval Art from 900-1500, exh. cat. (Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma Museum of Art: 1985), 68-69, (repro.) as Apostle Relief, with the Apostles Paul, Andrew, and James.
Marilyn Stokstad, Medieval Art (New York: Harper and Row, 1986), 215, (repro.), as St. Paul, St. Andrew, and St. James.
Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 32, (repro.), as The Apostles Paul, Andrew, and James.
Xavier Barral i Altet, “The Last Supper of the Vic Cathedral Façade Rediscovered,” Gesta 28, no. 2 (1989): 121, 125n6, (repro.).
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, vol. 2, New York and New Jersey, Middle and South Atlantic States, the Midwest, Western and Pacific States (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999), 222-23, (repro.), as Three apostles. Cathedral of Sant Pere, Vich.
Gene Mittler and Rosalind Ragans, Understanding Art (New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2007), 38, (repro.), as Three Apostles.
Josep M Trullen i Thomas, Museu Episcopal de Vic: guía de las colecciones (Barcelona: Museu Episcopal de Vic, 2007), 83.
Manuel Castiñeiras and Jordi Camps, El románico y el Mediterráneo: Cataluña, Toulouse y Pisa, exh. cat. (Barcelona: Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, 2008), 251, (repro.), as Relieve con tres apóstoles: Pablo, Andrés y Santiago.
