The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

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Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition

Examine aspects of images used by the Christian, Jewish, and emerging Muslim communities in the Byzantine Empire. Concludes with music that connects the three faiths.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, on view March 14 through July 8, 2012 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2012/byzantium-and-islam

The Icons of Sinai: Continuity at a Time of Controversy
Hieromonk Justin of Sinai

Jews and Samaritans in an Age of Transition
Steven Fine, professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University, and Director, Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies

Panel Discussion
Moderated by Helen C. Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, MMA

Performance
Music between East and West: Continuity and Change
Alan Gampel, pianist and musicologist Clive Greensmith, cellist

This Sunday at the Met is made possible by Coexist Foundation.
Major support for the exhibition has been provided by Mary and Michael Jaharis The Stavros Niarchos Foundation The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.
Additional support has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Images (9)

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Workshop of Biduinus (Italian, active last quarter 12th century)

Date:: ca. 1175
Geography:: Made in Tuscany, Italy
Culture:: Italian
Medium:: Carrara marble
Dimensions:: Overall: 158 x 76 in. (401.3 x 193 cm)
Classification:: Installations
Credit Line:: The Cloisters Collection, 1962
Accession Number:: 62.189

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 002

Description

Dedicated to Saint Leonard, the patron saint of prisoners, this portal served as the main entrance of the small Church of San Leonardo al Frigido. An antique sarcophagus was reused for the supporting jambs on the sides of the door; it was carved to show scenes of the Annunciation and the Visitation on the left and an image of Saint Leonard holding an emblematic prisoner on the right. The Entry into Jerusalem on the lintel is modeled after an Early Christian tomb relief. The doorway is a product of the workshop of Master Biduino, who worked in the Pisa-Lucca area.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: (above the Annuciation) H[IC] E[ST] SALUTATIO MAR[IAE]
Provenance

From the church of San Leonardo al Frigido, near Massa, Tuscany, Italy

Domenico Ricci , Sarzana, by 1773 ; Eugenio Giovannini , Massa ; Countess Benkendorff-Schouvaloff , Villa Monticello, Nice (after 1879; by 1898-1962) ; Alessandro de Millo , Villa Belvedere, Nice-Cimiez ; [ F. Kleinberger Galleries Galleries, New York (sold 1962)]
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A.D. 1000-1400 (7,082)
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Italian Peninsula, 1000–1400 A.D.
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