Sarcophagus
Vincenzo Fioroni (1867-1929), Corneto (today Tarquinia), Italy, by 1905 [1];
Possibly a museum in Tarquinia, Italy, 1932 [2];
With Piero Tozzi, New York, by 1941, as The Vintage;
Purchased from Tozzi, through the generosity of the Laura Nelson Kirkwood Residuary Trust, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.
NOTES:
[1] According to Gerhart Rodenwaldt, “Der Klinensarkophag von S. Lorenz,” Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 45 (1930), 166 n. 3, German archaeologist Walter Altmann (1873-1910) saw this relief in 1905 when it was in the possession of the pharmacist Vincenzo Fioroni in Corneto, Italy. Fioroni funded several archaeological excavations in a burial region northeast of Corneto from 1904 to 1906, although it is unknown if this relief was uncovered during those excavations. It is likely it was discovered earlier; the right narrow side of the sarcophagus was given to the Musée Fol (today the Musée d'art et d'histoire) in Geneva, Switzerland (no. MF1362) by the museum’s founder, collector Walther Fol (1832-1890) in 1871. It is currently unknown when the Nelson-Atkins and the Geneva fragments were separated. See Walther Fol, Catalogue du Musée Fol. Antiquités 1: Céramique et plastique (Geneva: H. Georg, Cherbuliez, 1874), 298-299.
[2] A handwritten note that reads “Tarquinia, Museo,” is written on the bottom of the mount for a photograph of this relief (no. 32.1351) dated 1932 and held by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut-Rome. This could indicate the relief was loaned to a Tarquinian museum in 1932. The setting of the photograph, however, suggests it was not taken at a museum, as the relief is shown resting across two chairs and possibly outside.
Gerhart Rodenwaldt, “Der Klinensarkophag von S. Lorenz,” Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 45 (1930), 166, 174 fig. 50.
Achille Adriani, „Le gobelet en argent des amours vendangeurs du Musée d'Alexandrie,“ Société Royale d'Archéologie d'Alexandrie—Cahier no. 1. (Alexandria: Société des Publications Égyptiennes, 1939), 15 fig. 8.
Friedrich Matz, “Vindemia: Zu vier bakchischen Sarkophagen,” Marburger Winckelmann-Programm 1949, 25 n.14.
Nikolaus Himmelmann, “Fragment eines attischen Sarkophags,” Marburger Winckelmann-Programm 1959, 38 n.49.
Robert Turcan, “Les sarcophages romains a représentations dionysiaques. Essai de chronologie et d’histoire religieuse,” Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 210 (Paris: Éditions E. de Boccard, 1966), 163-164, 357 (Table 1 B-5), 418, 492.
Margherita Bonanno, “Un gruppo di sarcofagi Romani con scena di vendemmia,” Prospettiva 13, April 1978, 45.
Doris Bielefeld, „Die stadtrömischen Eroten-Sarkophage,“ Weinlese- und Ernteszenen. Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs V 2 (Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1997), 19 n.18; 24, 26-28, 65, 85, 106 cat. 37 pls. 1.4; 5.2.
Robert Cohon, “Lost and Sometimes Found: Findspots and Pedigrees of Ancient Art,” Provenance and Due Diligence, IFAR Journal, 3 nos. 3-4, 2000, 35-36, fig. 7.
