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Histamenon (Coin) of Romanus III Argyrus with Christ Enthroned
Byzantine · 1028-34
Provenance
Ownership history
- Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871- 1964), Paris, London, and Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1940.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Elizabeth Benge,“<a href="https://www.artic.edu/articles/904/portraits-of-change-ancient-coins"><em>Portraits of Change: Ancient Coins,</em></a>” Art Institute of Chicago ARTicle, February 26, 2021.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), p. 76.
- Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Karen Manchester (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012), p. 29.
- Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 104-106 (cat. 26), fig. 26.1, 114.
- Larry J. Feinberg, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Christina M. Nielsen, “Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004), pp. 22-23, 24, cat. 5.
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