Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment of a Capital with the Ox of Saint Luke
- Date
- c. 1175–1200
- Medium
- marble
- Culture
- Northern Italy, Emilia (Bologna?), 12th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This fragment and two other capitals (1972.20 and 1972.21) were once parts of the same structure. Though the original structure is unknown, their style suggests that it was located in Bologna. As the fragmentary Latin inscription S: LU suggests, the ox represents the traditional symbol in medieval art of the Evangelist Saint Luke.
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