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Reliquary Casket of Saints Adrian and Natalia
Unattributed · 1100–50
Provenance
Ownership history
- Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1914 [see Gudiol 1914–15]. Harry Fuld (d. 1932), Frankfurt, by 1918 [see Swarzenski 1918]; by descent to his widow, Lucie Mayer-Fuld (d. 1966), Frankfurt, Berlin, and New York, 1932–42 [according to incoming shipping receipt in curatorial file]; on loan to museum starting October 17, 1942 [according to incoming receipt in Registrar's file]; sold, through Raphael Stora, to the Art Institute, 1942 [according to incoming shipping receipt, mentioned above].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Craftsmanship from Medieval Church Treasuries, October 8–November 30, 1942 [no cat.].
- Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2, 1985–January 5, 1986, no. 24.
- Leningrad, State Hermitage Museum, and Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Medieval Art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, May 10–July 10, 1990, August 14–October 14, 1990, cat. 34.
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art of Medieval Spain, A.D. 500–1200, 1993, cat. 122.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 25, 2004-January 3, 2005, cat. 11.
- León, Spain, Museo de León, Reina Ella. Visión y acción de Urraca I, March 6-June 7, 2026.
Literature
Published references
- José Gudiol, “Una Antigua producciòn Catalana,” Museum: Revista mensual de arte Español antiquo y moderno y de la vida artistica contemporanea 4 (1914–15), pp. 38–39, figs. B–C.
- Georg Swarzenski, “Die Sammlung Harry Fuld in Frankfurt,” Das Kunstblatt (1918; reprint, Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1978), p. 88, pl. 90.
- Meyric R. Rogers, “Decorative Arts,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago: Report for the Year 1943 38, 3 (1944), p. 17.
- Oswald Goetz, “Medieval Enamels and Metalwork in the Buckingham Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 38, 7 (December 1944), pp. 110–12, figs. 7–8.
- Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1945), p. 65, no. 21, pls. 26–28.
- Helen Foss, “News Reports,” College Art Journal 8, 4 (summer 1949), p. 306.
- José Gudiol, “Basic Spanish in the Middle Ages,” Art News 53, 8 (December 1954), p. 20.
- “Early Spanish Treasures at the Cloisters,” Connoisseur 136, 547 (September 1955), pp. 15–16 (ill.).
- Ruth Butler, “Frühe spanische Kunstschätze in “The Cloisters” von New York,” Die Kunst und das schöne heim 55, 12 (September 1955), pp. 444–45 (ill.).
- Marian C. Donnelly and Cyril S. Smith, “Notes on a Romanesque Reliquary,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 58 (1961), pp. 109–19, figs. 1-4.
- Jesús Hernández Perrera, "Los Artes industriales españolas de la época románca," Goya 43–45 (1961), pp. 98-112, ill. p. 105.
- Ian Wardropper and Lynn Springer Roberts, European Decorative Arts in The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago, 1991), pp. 10, 11, 12 (ill.).
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