Twelve Months Panels
Artist
Karl Theodore Francis Bitter
(Austrian/American, 1867-1915)
Date1892-93
CultureAmerican
MediumMarble
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN11657
Austrian-born sculptor Karl Bitter carved this high-relief marble frieze for the Main Hall of the Huntington Mansion. Each of the twelve panels represents a month of the year, through frolicking putti (or cupids)–loosely inspired by the Italian Renaissance–acting out complex scenes combining traditional allegory and 19th-century popular imagery. The intervening panels, depicting symbols of the arts and sciences, were designed by the decorating firm Ellin, Kitson & Co., frequent collaborators with Bitter.
On View
On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 21
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