Cleveland Museum of Art

Doorway (Portal)

Date

late 1400s

Medium

gray sandstone

Culture

Italy, Gubbio (?), 15th century

Department

European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This doorway may have been a part of Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace in Gubbio, Italy, built in 1470 by Luciano Laurana and possibly finished by Francesco di Giorgio Martini. A Ducal studiolo decorated with wooden panels is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Because of the differences in ornamentation between the doorways in the Met's Ducal studiolo and this doorway, it is not certain that this doorway is from Gubbio's Ducal Palace. The arch of the doorway is decorated with masks, urns, and elaborate garlands. From the upper corners of the doorway, two profile heads face

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