{"data": {"id": 133841, "accession_number": "1956.43", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Crucifixion with the Two Thieves, 1450\u20131500. Italy, Piedmont. Pen and brown ink and black chalk; sheet: 24.4 x 19.4 cm (9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. and L. E. Holden Funds and John L. Severance Fund, 1956.43", "current_location": null, "title": "Crucifixion with the Two Thieves", "creation_date": "1450\u20131500", "creation_date_earliest": 1450, "creation_date_latest": 1500, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Italy, Piedmont"], "technique": "pen and brown ink and black chalk", "support_materials": [{"description": "beige(1) laid paper partially prepared with red chalk wash", "watermarks": []}], "department": "Drawings", "collection": "DR - Italian", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Sheet: 24.4 x 19.4 cm (9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"sheet": {"height": 0.244, "height_inch": 9, "height_inch_fraction": 0.625, "width": 0.194, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 301184, "title": "Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition", "description": "<i>Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition</i>. 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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968).", "opening_date": "1968-06-11T04:00:00"}, {"id": 309855, "title": "I and Thou", "description": "<i>I and Thou</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 21-May 27, 1984).", "opening_date": "1984-02-21T05:00:00"}, {"id": 310010, "title": "Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection", "description": "<i>Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).", "opening_date": "1986-12-16T05:00:00"}, {"id": 281457, "title": "Michelangelo: Mind of the Master", "description": "<i>Michelangelo: Mind of the Master</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 2019-January 5, 2020).", "opening_date": "2019-09-22T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).", "opening_date": "1986-12-15T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, I and Thou (Feb. 21-May 27, 1984).", "opening_date": "1984-02-21T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (Apr. 27, 1972-Feb. 2, 1973).", "opening_date": "1972-04-27T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; Mar. 16, 1971-    (Gallery F remained open)).", "opening_date": "1970-12-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (June 11, 1968-    ).", "opening_date": "1968-06-11T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, Italian Prints and Drawings (Jan. 30-Mar. 26, 1968).", "opening_date": "1968-01-30T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (June 9, 1967-Jan. 21, 1968).", "opening_date": "1967-06-09T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, Old Master Prints and Drawings (July 29, 1966-Apr. 1, 1967).", "opening_date": "1966-07-29T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, Old Master Drawings (Mar. 10-30, 1964).", "opening_date": "1930-03-10T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, The International Style (Oct. 23-Dec. 2, 1962) [loan extended to Dec. 30, 1962], no. 1, pl. xxxvii.", "opening_date": "1962-10-23T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (Mar. 7-Apr. 26, 1962).", "opening_date": "1962-03-07T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, Art and Humanism in the Renaissance (Jan. 22-Feb. 25, 1962).", "opening_date": "1962-01-22T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Newark (N.J.) Museum, Old Master Drawings (Mar. 17-May 22, 1960), no. 2, p. 12, illus.", "opening_date": "1960-03-17T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition (Mar. 3, 1958-Oct. 11, 1959).", "opening_date": "1958-03-03T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "The drawing is acquired by Antonio II Badile (c.1424-c.1511)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "c.1450s-c.1510", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The drawing is included in an album of drawings compiled from Antionio II Badile\u2019s collection, likely by one or both of his sons, Bartolomeo III Badile(1464/67-1545) or Francesco II Badile(1476/77-1544).", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "c.1520", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The drawing is in the collection of Lodovico Moscardo as part of the Badile Album.", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1672", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "The drawing enters the collection of the Miniscalchi family as part of the Badile Album upon the marriage of Teresa Moscardo and Marcantonio Miniscalchi.", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1785", "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "The drawing is purchased by an unknown collector after Mario Miniscalchi-Erizzo begins to sell drawings from the Moscardo collection, including the Badile Album.", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1905", "sortorder": 5}, {"description": "The drawing is purchased, along with the rest of the Badile Album, by Francis Matthiesen, who dismantles the album and begins selling individual drawings.", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1947-1954", "sortorder": 6}, {"description": "The drawing is purchased  by the Cleveland Museum of Art.", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1956", "sortorder": 7}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "In the left foreground Christ's grieving mother, Mary, is supported by two other women: Mary Magdalene and Mary of Clopas. This common grouping is often called the Three Marys.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "To make this drawing\u2014which could be a <em>ricordi</em> (a visual record of a painting)\u2014the artist first sketched part of the composition with charcoal before completing it with pen and ink. Charcoal was not regularly used as a drawing medium until the second half of the 1400s. Even then, it was usually a secondary medium, as seen here, meant to sketch or outline figures to be completed in other media. Charcoal and black chalk became more popular with later generations of artists, including Michelangelo, who found the supple qualities of the media ideal for rendering the human figure.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60759503"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1956.43-crucifixion-with-the"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \u201cRare Italian Drawings\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 45, no. 8 (1958): 195\u2013202.", "page_number": "Reproduced: cover; Mentioned: p. 195-197.", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142287"}, {"citation": "Ragghianti, Carlo L., ed. \u201cAcquisti di Musei.\u201d <em>Sele arte</em>, no. 40 (March 1959).", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced p.58 (as Altichiero)", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Verdier, Phillippe, ed. <em>The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400</em>. Walters Art Gallery, 1962.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.1, n.1; pl.XXXVII (as circle of Altichiero)", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Ames, Winslow.<em> Great Drawings of All Time: Italian</em>. Vol. 1, edited by Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson. Great Drawings of All Time. Shorewood Publishers, 1962.", "page_number": "n.6 (As Altichiero Altichieri)", "url": ""}, {"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. 58", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n82"}, {"citation": "Kruft, Hanno-Walter. \u201cAltichiero Und Avanzo : Untersuchungen Zur Oberitalienischen Malerei Des Ausgehenden Trecento.\u201d Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit\u00e4t, 1966.", "page_number": "Mentioned: 186, no. 13", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Scholz, Janos. \u201cItalian Drawings in the Art Museum of Princeton University.\u201d <em>The Burlington Magazine </em>109, no. 770 (1967): 290\u201399.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p.293 (as attributed to Altichiero)", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/875302"}, {"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. 58", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n82"}, {"citation": "Evans, M. W. <em>Medieval Drawings</em>. Feltham: Hamlyn, 1969.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.40, pl.121 (as circle of Altichiero)", "url": ""}, {"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. 66", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n86"}, {"citation": "Olszewski, Edward J. <em>Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Early Works</em>. Vol. 1, edited by Burton L. Dunbar and Edward J. Olszewski. Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus Compiled by the Midwest Art History Society. University of Missouri Press, 1996.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: n.3, p. 14-17 (as Bernardino Jacopi Butinone)", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Karet, Evelyn, and Peter Windows. \u201cThe \u2018Antonio II Badile Album\u2019 of Drawings: A Reconstruction of an Early Sixteenth Century Collection.\u201d <em>Arte Lombarda</em>, no. 145 (3) (2005): 23\u201356.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: 50-51, fig 6, 26v[93] (as Veronese artist after  Altichiero Altichieri)", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Degenhart, Bernhard, Annegrit Schmitt, Hans-Joachim Eberhardt, et al. <em>Verona Badile-Album: Studiensammlung Einer Veroneser K\u00fcnstlerwerkstatt</em>. Vol. 3. Corpus Der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450. Biering &amp; Brinkmann, 2010.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: 290-299, n.836, pl.59", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Karet, Evelyn. The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy. With Peter Windows and Alessandra Zamperini. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: 77-78, appendix 1: 26v; appendix 2b: 26v", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.43", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.43/1956.43_web.jpg", "width": "706", "height": "893", "filesize": "551988", "filename": "1956.43_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.43/1956.43_print.jpg", "width": "2689", "height": "3400", "filesize": "8407823", "filename": "1956.43_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.43/1956.43_full.tif", "width": "4804", "height": "6072", "filesize": "87540948", "filename": "1956.43_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.43/1956.43_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "716", "height": "893", "filesize": "489056"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.43/1956.43_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "1232", "height": "1536", "filesize": "1470810"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.43/1956.43_alt0_full.tif", "width": "1232", "height": "1536", "filesize": "5679284"}, "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Delia E. and L. 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