Cleveland Art, January/February 2013
- Member Magazine
Articles in this issue: Pompeii; British Drawings; Caporali Missal; Transformer Station; Performance; Film; Education.
The Virgin Eleousa
No phenomenon is more emblematic of Byzantine art than the painted icon, or sacred image, which provides its distinctive formal aesthetic and complex theology. In contrast to the veneration of devotional images in the European west during the Middle Ages, Byzantium regarded icons as important vehicl...
The Caporali Missal
In 2006 the museum acquired a sumptuous and historically important manuscript missal, a liturgical service book for the Mass. Known today as the Caporali Missal based on its illuminations attributed to the brothers Bartolomeo and Giapeco Caporali, artists active in Perugia during the second half of...
Edmonia Lewis
Mark Cole Associate Curator of American Painting and Sculpture
Indian Combat 1868. Edmonia Lewis (American, about 1844–1907).Marble; 76.2 x 48.3 x 36.5 cm. American Painting and Sculpture Sundry Purchase Fund and Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2011.110
In 2011, the Cleveland Museum of Art generate...
