id: 97157 accession number: 1916.795 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.795 updated: The Madonna of Humility with the Temptation of Eve, c. 1400. Olivuccio di Ciccarello (Italian, Marche, 1360/65–1439). Tempera and gold on wood panel; framed: 191.5 x 99 x 11 cm (75 3/8 x 39 x 4 5/16 in.); unframed: 181.5 x 88.6 cm (71 7/16 x 34 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.795 title: The Madonna of Humility with the Temptation of Eve title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1400 creation date earliest: 1395 creation date latest: 1405 current location: 110A Italian Gothic creditline: Holden Collection copyright: --- culture: Italy, the Marches, late 14th-early 15th Century technique: tempera and gold on wood panel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Olivuccio di Ciccarello (Italian, Marche, 1360/65–1439) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 191.5 x 99 x 11 cm (75 3/8 x 39 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 181.5 x 88.6 cm (71 7/16 x 34 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936). title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Boston Foreign Art Exhibit, 1883, cat. no. 399
The Museum of Metropolitan Art, 1912, cat. no. 12, illus.
The Inaugural Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, June 6-Sept. 20, 1916, cat. no. 16
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1936, cat. no. 90, pl. XI
Gothic Art 1360-1440; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Aug. 8- Sept. 15, 1963, cat. no. 76, illus. p. 185 --- PROVENANCE James Jackson Jarves (1884) date: footnotes: citations: Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The Madonna is seated humbly on the ground nursing her child. Saint George and the Archangels Gabriel and Michael kneel nearby, while Christ’s disciples appear radiating from the Madonna’s halo in the form of stars. In contrast with the Virgin’s purity, Eve lies in the lower part of the painting. Coaxed by the serpent, she raises the forbidden fruit to her mouth, thus condemning humankind through her original sin. The juxtaposition of these two images affirms the Incarnation and the role of Christ and the Virgin in the redemption story. The deep scratches on the surface of the panel, especially on the serpent’s face and Eve’s wrist, likely resulted from a zealous Christian’s symbolic attack on the power of evil. The artist, Olivuccio di Ciccarello, is known to have been active in the Marche in central Italy. Little is known of his life except that he was an important and prolific painter in Ancona, where he died. His paintings were formerly attributed to Carlo da Camerino, an apparently nonexistent artist, on the basis of a mistaken reading of his signature on a crucifix. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. page number: Mentioned: p. 21-22, cat. no. 16; Reproduced: p. 55, No. 16 url: https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n31 G. U. "The Holden Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34. page number: Reproduced: p. 23 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136067 Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 46 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n54 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 405 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n74 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 56 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n80 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 56 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n80 Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Reproduced: fig. 22, p. 59 - 61 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 68 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n88 Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 88-91; Reproduced: p. 89 url: Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane. Biblical Women and the Arts. London ; New York: T & T Clark, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 6, fig. 1.2 url: Leone De Castris, Pierluigi. La pittura del Quattrocento a Napoli: 1400-1458 : da Ladislao D'Angiò-Durazzo ad Alfonso D'Aragona. 2020, 96. page number: Mentioned: p. 96. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.795/1916.795_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.795/1916.795_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.795/1916.795_full.tif