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the end of the more than five-week trip he calculated that he would make enough to pay off a large note and build a studio and house on his new property.
Standing Bishop, probably Saint Nicholas of Bari. Originally from the parish church of Monticchio (Aquila). Bought by Barnard at Assisi. Simple volumes enlivened by painted decorations, including medallions spelling Ave Maria. This and a similar, more complete, bishop at Florence Bargello, rank among the finest surviving Gothic wood sculptures ofItaly.
When he parted with the Clarks, ‘sick of antiques,’ he headed for southern France. It was while carrying out his Harrisburg commission in France, that funding for the project nearly collapsed due to graft and therefore, in order to support his family, Barnard was reduced to scavenging the countryside for medieval antiques he could sell; with this he launched his avocation of collecting great medieval pieces.
Near Prades, he probably acquired a small Romanesque capital with the Adoration of the Magi and walked into the unexpected fray over the Cuxa arcades. Following this, once back in New York, he announced plans to build a ‘cloister museum’, citing as his source of revenue for construction the sale of a fifteenth-century equestrian statue from the Chateau de Joinville. Barnard retained his best finds for ‘The Cloisters’, whom he sold to Rockefeller in 1925 for $600,000. Rockefeller then donated The Cloisters to the city of New York to make it a park/museum and Barnard later built a second collection which was sold by his estate to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1945.
Capitols at Barnard’s Cloister