{"data": {"id": 128833, "accession_number": "1951.450", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Triptych: The Life of the Virgin, c. 1325\u20131350. France, Lorraine?, or Austria?, Gothic period, 14th century. Ivory, traces of gilding; overall: 25.9 x 21.3 cm (10 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1951.450", "current_location": "106C Medieval Treasury", "title": "Triptych: The Life of the Virgin", "creation_date": "c. 1325\u20131350", "creation_date_earliest": 1320, "creation_date_latest": 1355, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["France, Lorraine?, or Austria?, Gothic period, 14th century"], "technique": "ivory, traces of gilding", "support_materials": [], "department": "Medieval Art", "collection": "MED - Gothic", "type": "Ivory", "measurements": "Overall: 25.9 x 21.3 cm (10 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.259, "height_inch": 10, "height_inch_fraction": 0.1875, "width": 0.213, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.375}}, "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": 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"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Collection of Count Scipio, Krakow (late 19th century) (Engraving no. 57, pl. III in sale catalogue or collection catalogue tbd)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Boehm collection, Vienna.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "Prince of Liechtenstein, Vaduz", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc. New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1951", "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1951-", "sortorder": 5}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The pinnacle, roof moldings, and base are modern additions attached before the object entered our collection.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The Virgin and Child, standing beneath a three-part arch, occupy the central plaque of this triptych. On the wings are carved four scenes from the life of the Virgin: the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Adoration of the Magi, and Christ's Presentation in the Temple. By the end of the 12th century, devotional objects like this became widespread in many parts of Western Europe as a result of the growing cult of the Virgin.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60756464"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1951.450-triptych-the-life-of"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "HEFNER-ALTENECK, Jacob Heinrich von. Trachten, Kunstwerke Und Gera\u0308thschaften Vom Fru\u0308hen Mittelalter Bis Ende Des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. ... Zweite Vermehrte ... Auflage. 1879.", "page_number": "III (1882), pl. 169", "url": null}, {"citation": "Brunn [Brno] exhbition catalogue, 1884.", "page_number": "pl. 71", "url": null}, {"citation": "H. Semper, \"\u00dcber eine besondere Gruppe elfenbeinerner Klappalt\u00e4rchen des XIV Jahrhunderts\", <em>Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Christliche Kunst </em>11 (1898).", "page_number": "pp. 117-118", "url": null}, {"citation": "Koechlin, Raymond.<em> Les ivoires gothiques franc\u0327ais. </em>Paris: A. Picard, 1924.", "page_number": "Vol. I, pp. 123, 203; II, no. 127", "url": null}, {"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. 137", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n37"}, {"citation": "\"Gothic Art 1360-1440.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 50, no. 7 (1963).", "page_number": "p. 174", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960"}, {"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. 65", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n89"}, {"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. 65", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n89"}, {"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. 72", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n92"}, {"citation": "Amato, Pietro. <em>Tesori d'arte dei musei diocesani</em>. Torino: U. Allemandi, 1986.", "page_number": "pp. 224-225", "url": null}, {"citation": "Randall, Richard H. <em>The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections. </em>New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993.", "page_number": "Cat. no. 40, p. 55", "url": null}, {"citation": "Barnet, Peter. <em>Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age</em>. Detroit, Mich: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997.", "page_number": "Cat. No. 48, pp. 211-212", "url": null}, {"citation": "Gertsman, Elina. <em>Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna</em>. 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