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Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon
1347
Overall: 66.7 x 51.3 x 25.3 cm (26 1/4 x 20 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Location: 110A Italian Gothic
Description
In the Middle Ages relics were thought to possess extraordinary power and were enshrined in lavish vessels called reliquaries. This complex frame once contained a painted image on each side, believed to be the Madonna and the Crucifixion, both long since lost. These images were surrounded by 17 carefully labeled relics, still visible. Intentionally portable, such votive objects could be easily carried from room to room or building to building as needed. A Latin inscription around the base reads: This work has been made under the year of the Lord CCCXLVII [1347] in the time of the Lord Mini/Cini. The inscription likely refers to Mino Cinughi, rector of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, 1340-51. The Cinughi coat of arms as well as those of the hospital appear on the base. Another inscription, LUCAS ME FECIT (Luke made me), appears on both sides of the base. While this object probably resided on an altar in the hospital, the fact that it has two sides suggests it was carried aloft in processions.- (Blumka Gallery, New York).
- Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3–48. Reproduced: p. 12; Mentioned: p. 42, no. 24 www.jstor.orgWixom, William D. “Eleven Additions to the Medieval Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 3 (Mar/Apr 1979): 87–151. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 128-132, figs. 83-85 www.jstor.orgCleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 264-265, no. 99Bagnoli, Martina. Treasures of heaven: saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010. Reproduced: cat. no. 117, p. 202 - 203Migdal, Anna Maria. Regina Cœli: les images mariales et le culte des reliques : entre Orient et Occident au Moyen Âge. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. p. 196, 252, 324. : p. 324, fig. 79 Mentioned: p. 196, 252ReproducedZchomelidse, Nino. "Liminal Phenomena: Framing Medieval Cult Images with Relics and Words." Viator. 47, no. 3 (2016): 243-296. Reproduced p. 289, fig. 20; Mentioned p. 264Silver, Nathaniel E. and Alexa Beller. Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth. Boston; London: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Paul Holberton Publishing, 2018. Mentioned: p,. 43; Reproduced: p. 44The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Painting under glass" Accessed: 2021-02-13 21:25:42. M.56 & A-1904 collection.beta.fitz.ms
- CMA, October 17, 2010 - January 17, 2011, Walters Art Museum February 13 - May 15, 2011, British Museum June 23 - October 9, 2011: "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe," cat. no. 117.Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 17, 2010-January 17, 2011).Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008).Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007) and the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).CMA 1979, Year in Review 1978, Bulletin. (Jan. 1979) 12, 42, cat. no.24.
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