{"data": {"id": 124200, "accession_number": "1945.2", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Charger Depicting the Three Graces, c. 1525. Circle of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli (Italian, 1465?\u20131553). Tin-glazed earthenware with gold lustre (maiolica); diameter: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1945.2", "current_location": "118 Italian Renaissance", "title": "Charger Depicting the Three Graces", "creation_date": "c. 1525", "creation_date_earliest": 1520, "creation_date_latest": 1530, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["Italy, Urbino region, Gubbio, 16th century"], "technique": "tin-glazed earthenware with gold lustre (maiolica)", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Decorative Arts", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Diameter: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"diameter": {"width": 0.448, "width_inch": 17, "width_inch_fraction": 0.625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "this plate has been broken and mended; in the repair, signature and date have disappeared.  According to catalogue by A. Darcel and A. Basilewsky (Collection Basilewsky, No. 420) name and date were on the plate.", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 302205, "title": "Art and Humanism in the Renaissance", "description": "<i>Art and Humanism in the Renaissance</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).", "opening_date": "1962-01-23T05:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "No existing exhibition history", "opening_date": null}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Alexander Basilewsky [1829-1899], Paris.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "until c. 1884", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "(Rosenberg & Steibel, Inc., New York).", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "In Greek mythology, the three graces represent the daughters of Zeus who embodied charm, beauty, and creativity.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "During the Renaissance, an understanding of classical antiquity was perceived to be a sign of social, intellectual, and economic distinction. Scenes from Greco-Roman mythology were prominently featured on maiolica, covering the surface in a style called <em>istoriato </em>(decorated with stories). This depiction of the three graces was likely based on an engraving by the Renaissance printmaker, Marcantonio Raimondi.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60781114"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1945.2-charger-depicting-th"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Basilewsky, A., Alfred Darcel, and Petrograd I. E\u0301rmitazh. Collection Basilewsky; Catalogue Raisonne\u0301, Pre\u0301Ce\u0301de\u0301 Du\u0313N Essai Sur Les Arts Industriels Du Ier Au XVIe Sie\u0300Cle. Vol. 1. Paris: Vve A. Morel et cie, 1874.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 161, cat. no. 420.", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cMajolica Plate by Maestro Giorgio.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 32, no. 3 (March 1945): 23\u201325.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p 24", "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141185"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 221", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n49"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 90", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n114"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 90", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n114"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n125"}, {"citation": "Busti, Giulio, and Franco Cocchi.<em> La ceramica umbra al tempo di Perugino</em>. Milan: Silvana Editoriale Spa, 2004.", "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 57, cat. no. 9", "url": "http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=54956804"}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.2", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.2/1945.2_web.jpg", "width": "928", "height": "893", "filesize": "665926", "filename": "1945.2_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.2/1945.2_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3271", "filesize": "7425503", "filename": "1945.2_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.2/1945.2_full.tif", "width": "4690", "height": "4512", "filesize": "63523808", "filename": "1945.2_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.2/1945.2_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "917", "height": "893", "filesize": "565415"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.2/1945.2_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3311", "filesize": "7218409"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.2/1945.2_alt0_full.tif", "width": "4464", "height": "4347", "filesize": "58251844"}, "date_created": "2008-05-21T13:16:32", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Purchase from the J. 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