About the Artwork
Sarcophagus
3rd century
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Italian
Italian
Marble
Overall: 25 1/2 × 85 1/2 × 29 inches (64.8 × 217.2 × 73.7 cm) Base(s): 16 1/4 × 8 1/8 × 33 inches (41.3 × 20.6 × 83.8 cm) Including base: 41 7/8 × 85 1/2 × 29 inches (106.4 × 217.2 × 73.7 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
City of Detroit Purchase
26.138
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Provenance
(Alfredo Barsanti, Rome, Italy)
1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Lesley, P. Early Christian, Byzantine and Romanesque Art. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1939, pp. 8–9.
Vermeule, C. "Roman Sacrophagi in America." Festschrift fur Friedrich Matz. 1962, p. 102.
Lesley, Parker. "Early Christian Sarcophagus." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 18, no. 2 (November 1938): pp. 8–10, p. 9 (ill.).
Kateusz, Ally. Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leaderhip. Cham, 2019, pp. xvi, 124, 126, 225, note 65, fig. 5.16 (ill.).
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Italian, Sarcophagus, 3rd century, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 26.138.
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