ROUNDEL WITH ROSETTE
Artist Venetian Sculptor
active in the 13th century
Date 13th century
Object type relief Medium, technique limestone Dimensions 38 cm, 21 kg Inventory number 1459
Collection Sculptures
On view This artwork is not on display
In twelfth- and thirteenth-century Venice, it was customary to decorate the façade of buildings with carved roundels (patere) that were adorned with animals and floral motifs. The roundels held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest were made from limestone in thirteenth-century Venice. The majority of the designs derive from Byzantine and Islamic decorative arts. Certain motifs must have had symbolic meaning beyond their decorative function.
References
Balogh, Jolán, Katalog der ausländischen Bildwerke des Museums der bildenden Künste in Budapest, IV – XVIII.
Jahrhundert: 1. Textband Bd. 1, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1975, p. 36-37., no. 14.
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