Object details
Accession number
S31s1.1-12
Primary Creator
Full title
Doorway
Creation Date
11th century-15th century (fragments, 20th century,assembled)
Provenance
A pastiche of architectural elements (now a doorway) purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from different dealers and at different times in the late 1890s. The majority of the fragments were purchased in Venice in August and September 1899. For more information, please consult the individual records for each piece of the doorway.
Display Media
Stone
Dimension Notes
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Third Floor Stairhall and Stairway
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 278. (on the entire doorway; as created from Italian Romanesque and Gothic fragments)
Walter Cahn. "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. IV. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston." Gesta (1969), pp. 59-60, nos. 15c-g; pp. 60-61, no. 16a. (nos. 15c-g on the arch fragments, Venetian, 12th century-13th century; no. 16a on the cornice fragments, Venetian, 11th century-12th century)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 174, no. 227. (on the archivolt fragments; as Northern Italian, 14th century)
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