Cleveland Museum of Art
Jonah Swallowed
- Date
- 280–90 CE
- Medium
- marble
- Culture
- Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 141643
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
After disobeying the Lord’s command to proclaim judgment on the city of Nineveh, the Old Testament prophet Jonah was cast into the sea and swallowed by a sea monster. Here, the beast swallows Jonah headfirst. Although usually thought of as a whale, here the artist has depicted Jonah swallowed by a cetus, a large, monstrous sea creature.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- ?-1965: (J.J. Klejman, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1965-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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