Roundel with Mermaid, between 12th and 13th century

  • Italian

Stone

  • Overall: 14 inches (35.6 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

22.245

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

(Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

1922-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Crichton, G.H. Romanesque Sculpture in Italy. London, 1954, p. 356, pl. 34 (ill.). Cahn, W. Gesta 10, no. 2 (1971): p. 79, no. 9g. [as Veneto, 1100/1400.] Swiechowski, Z., A. Rizzi, R. Hamann-MacLean. Romanische Reliefs Von Venezianischen Fassaden. Wiesbaden, 1982, p. 176, no. 835. Cahn, W. Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, vol. II. Turnhout, 1999, no. 10g, p. 142. Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 12.

Italian, Roundel with Mermaid, between 12th and 13th century, stone. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 22.245.