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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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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Two Tusk Fragments with the Ascension of Christ:17.190.46 and 17.190.48Conforming to the shape of the ivory tusks from which they were carved, these two fragmentary images of the Ascension are so similar that they must have been carved by the same workshop
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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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Greuze was of modest birth, the son of a roofer. He received his early training in Lyons and in Paris studied drawing with Charles Joseph Natoire. In 1755, after he was accepted as a candidate member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in the category of genre painter, Greuze presented five works for exhibition at the Salon
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In this painting, the Madonna and Child are flanked by Saint Francis to the left, shown in the gray habit of the Franciscan order and holding the cross within his stigmata-marked hand, and Saint Jerome to the right, attired in the red robes of a cardinal, signifying his service to Pope Damasus I (305–384 CE)
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