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Wade, 1924.1012", "current_location": null, "title": "Initial S[alve sancta parens]  from a Gradual: Madonna and Child", "creation_date": "c. 1370\u201374", "creation_date_earliest": 1370, "creation_date_latest": 1374, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["Italy, Florence"], "technique": "ink, tempera, and gold on vellum", "support_materials": [], "department": "Medieval Art", "collection": "MED - Manuscript Illuminations", "type": "Manuscript", "measurements": "Sheet: 16 x 13 cm (6 5/16 x 5 1/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"sheet": {"height": 0.16, "height_inch": 6, "height_inch_fraction": 0.3125, "width": 0.13, "width_inch": 5, "width_inch_fraction": 0.125}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 304213, "title": "Gothic Art 1360-1440", "description": "<i>Gothic Art 1360-1440</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).", "opening_date": "1963-08-06T04:00:00"}, {"id": 301412, "title": "Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage", "description": "<i>Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).", "opening_date": "1971-07-13T04:00:00"}, {"id": 304558, "title": "When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story", "description": "<i>When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982).", "opening_date": "1981-12-01T05:00:00"}, {"id": 311502, "title": "The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art", "description": "<i>The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art</i>. 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This initial originally introduced the text: Salve sancta parens (\u201cHail, Holy Mother\u201d).", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79892050"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1924.1012-initial-s-alve-sanct"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "W. M. M. \u201cIlluminated Miniatures in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 12, no. 4 (1925).", "page_number": "p. 66, fig. d", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25136832"}, {"citation": "Ricci, Seymour de, William Jerome Wilson, Anne M. Nill, and W. H. 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Maria Degli Angeli and Fourteenth Century Manuscript Illumination: Don Silvestro Dei Gherarducci, Don Lorenzo Monaco, and Giovanni Del Biondo.\u201d <em>Zeitschrift F\u00fcr Kunstgeschichte</em> 55, no. 4 (1992).", "page_number": "pp. 507-523", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/1482625"}, {"citation": "Kanter, Laurence B.<em> Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450</em>. 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