Cleveland Museum Of Art Jonah Marbles

Frist center for the visual arts nashville tn february 13 june 7 2009.

Cleveland museum of art jonah marbles.

Sacred gifts and worldly treasures. The cleveland museum of art organizer september 10 october 16 1966. Sacred gifts and worldly treasures. Medieval masterworks from the cleveland museum of art.

The jonah marbles are a group of early christian sculptures in the collection of the cleveland museum of art. Paul getty museum los angeles ca october 30 2007 january 20 2008. In 1965 the cleveland museum of art acquired a group of eleven late roman marble busts and statuettes now known as the jonah marbles. Allegedly found buried together in a large pithos or jar the group consists of three nearly identical pairs of portrait busts of a roman aristocratic couple four small scale statuettes depicting central events of the old testament story of the prophet jonah.

Allegedly found together with the jonah marbles they may represent the christian patrons who commissioned the jonah cycle. The metropolitan museum of art new york ny organizer september 26 2006 february. The face in medieval sculpture. National museum of bavaria munich germany may 10 september 16 2007.

Medieval masterworks from the cleveland museum of art. Media in category jonah marbles the following 22 files are in this category out of 22 total.