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Giuseppe Barberi
Studies for Three Ornamental Panels with Death's Heads as Motifs
1746 – 1809
Museum Purchase
1958/1.68
A black and white etching depicting several fragments of friezes and columns, followed by textual descriptions in Italian.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian (culture or style))
Frieze, Soffits, Columns, plate 9 from Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto innalzati per la vittoria ad Actium e conquista dell'Egitto con vari altri ornamenti antichi
1753
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
1985/2.133
Photograph of a large stone carving occupies the center of the image. Above is rough-cut stone, indicating that the carving is part of a larger stone setting; below is a recess and darkness, indicating that the carving acts as a kind of decorative lintel above a cave entrance. The carving itself consists of eight square zones (or metopes) and within each is a decorative pattern of radial symmetry (circles) or vegetative imagery. The frieze is located above the entrance to the Apostles' Retreat, Valley of Hinnom in Jerusalem.
Auguste Salzmann (French (culture or style))
Details of the Entrance Frieze of the Apostles' Retreat, Valley of Hinnom, Jerusalem
1854 – 1856
Museum purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2014
2014/2.104

Louis Henry Sullivan
Design for the Frieze of the Wainwright Tomb
1892
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.60
A black and white etching depicting several Etruscan friezes.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian (culture or style))
Study of Fragments of Etruscan Friezes at Corneto from Trattato della introduzione e del progresso delle belle arti in Europa ne’ tempi antichi
1765
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
1985/2.132
Central portal of the north transept at Reims Cathedral, depicting the Last Judgment with Christ on the trumeau.
François Rothier
Christ Blessing, Trumeau on the door of the Last Judgment, Reims Cathedral
1867 – 1914
Gift of Howard and Margaret Bond
1996/1.48

Mauro Antonio Tesi
Two Sections of Arabesque Friezes in Imitation of Classical Sculpture
1730 – 1766
Museum Purchase
1960/2.20

Louis Henry Sullivan
Design for the Frieze of the Wainwright Tomb
1892
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.58

Albert Kahn (American (North American))
Frieze to Scuola San Marco, Venice
04/08/1891
Transferred from the College of Architecture and Design, 1972—Gift of the Family of Albert Kahn: through Dr. Edgar A. Kahn; Mrs. Barnett Malbin; Mrs. Martin L. Butzel
1972/2.445
A red crayon drawing of a man contemplating antique ruins.
Hubert Robert (French (culture or style))
Scene with Antique Ruins
1754 – 1808
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2012/2.183

Italian
An Arabesque Frieze with Alternative Suggestions
1600 – 1632
Museum Purchase
1963/2.27

Polidoro da Caravaggio
A Frieze of Horsemen
16th century
Museum Purchase
1951/2.32
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