Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 77, fig. 46, New York: The Metropolitan – Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases. p. 25, fig. 161, New York: Plantin Press.Richter
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For over a century scholars have considered whether or not this sympathetic portrait of an old man is a self-portrait by El Greco. Lafond (1906) described the seemingly Romantic notion as at best a plausible hypothesis, and a number of more recent scholars (for example, Wethey 1962) have rejected the idea, mainly on the basis of comparisons with presumed self-portraits inserted by El Greco into several of his major religious pictures (see also Christiansen 2003)
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Sir Giles Capel, Rayne Hall, Essex, England (until d. 1556; bequeathed to All Saints Chapel); All Saints Chapel, Rayne Hall, Essex, England (1556–1840; removed by Parmenter); William Parmenter, Bocking, Essex, England (1840–about 1866; sold for 10 s, to Courtauld); Edith Courtauld (later Arendrup), London, England (about 1866–80; gift to de Cosson); Baron Charles Alexander de Cosson, London (1880–93; sold on April 17, 1893, for Fr
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The reconstructed portal is composed of five medieval elements. Neither the bases nor the arch of rosettes were part of the medieval monument. The two jambs of gray Carrara marble were apparently recarved from sections of antique sarcophagi
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The Artist: Together with Maso di Banco (for which see 43.98.13), Taddeo Gaddi was Giotto’s most celebrated pupil and assistant
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1840s, excavated under the direction of Austen Henry Layard; 1849, presented by Layard to Lady Charlotte Guest for Canford Manor, Dorsetshire (Dorset), England; 1919, purchased by Dikran Kelekian from Ivor Churchill Guest; 1927, purchased by J
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