Console with bird in vine scroll, rinceau, and angel / Anonymous French (Burgundy)
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1975/1.64
- Title
- Console with bird in vine scroll, rinceau, and angel
- Artist
- Anonymous French (Burgundy)
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Medium and Support
- limestone
- Object Creation Date
- 1150-1175
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Burgundy (region)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Burgundy (region)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- Romanesque
- Dimensions
- 45.7 cm x 96.8 cm x 39.4 cm (18 in. x 38 1/8 in. x 15 1/2 in.)
- Century
- Third quarter of 12th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Primary Object Type
- relief
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Secondary Object Type
- architectural element
- Physical Description
- A three-quarter length angel, robustly carved in high relief, emerges from a cloud bank on the curved inner face of the console. The outer face of the console bears a tightly wound vine scroll carved in shallower relief with a bird at its center. The bird grasps the vine with its left leg while stretching back to grasp a cluster of grapes in its beak.
- Subject Matter
- This console originally formed part of a monumental stone portal ensemble at the entrance to a church. The robustly carved angel on the inner face of the block conveys the weight-bearing function of this piece while simultaneously demarcating the boundary of the sacred space inside the church. On the outer face of the console a vine scroll coils around a bird plucking grapes, a common motif of natural abundance in twelfth-century Burgundian sculpture that bore paradisiacal connotations.
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- architectural elements
- buildings and the land
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- descriptors
- design elements
- doorframe components
- doorframes and doorframe components
- doorway components
- doorways and doorway components
- legendary creatures
- openings (architectural elements)
- openings and opening components
- openings by form
- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- religious structures
- scrollwork
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1870 x 1662
- File Size
- 414 KB
- Record
- 1975/1.64
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"Console with bird in vine scroll, rinceau, and angel; Anonymous French (Burgundy)." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1975-sl-1.64/1975_1.64v1.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.
