Doorway (Portal) (late 1400s): Art, History and Details

Doorway (Portal) (late 1400s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This doorway may have been a part of Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace in Gubbio, Italy, built in 1470 by Luciano Laurana and possibly finished by Francesco di Giorgio Martini. A Ducal studiolo decorated with wooden panels is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Because of the differences in ornamentation between the doorways in the Met's Ducal studiolo and this doorway, it is not certain that this doorway is from Gubbio's Ducal Palace. The arch of the doorway is decorated with masks, urns, and elaborate garlands. From the upper corners of the doorway, two profile heads face

Object facts

• Title: Doorway (Portal)
• Date: late 1400s
• Culture: Italy, Gubbio (?), 15th century
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: gray sandstone
• Dimensions: Overall: 358 x 259 cm (140 15/16 x 101 15/16 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1916.2047

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

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