id: 97159
accession number: 1916.797
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Death of the Virgin, mid-1500s. Italy, Venice, 16th century. Oil on wood; framed: 78.8 x 130.9 cm (31 x 51 9/16 in.); unframed: 25 x 103.5 cm (9 13/16 x 40 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.797
title: Death of the Virgin
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creation date: mid-1500s
creation date earliest: 1525
creation date latest: 1575
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creditline: Holden Collection
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culture: Italy, Venice, 16th century
technique: oil on wood
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type: Painting
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measurements: Framed: 78.8 x 130.9 cm (31 x 51 9/16 in.); Unframed: 25 x 103.5 cm (9 13/16 x 40 3/4 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Boston, 1883: American Exhibition of Foreign Products, Arts, and Manufctures: Art Department, "Jarves Collection," cat. no. 430.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1912: "Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection," catalogue: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, . VII, no. 10 (October 1912), cat. no. 16.
CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of CMA," cat. no. 95.
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PROVENANCE
Gino Capponi Gallery, Florence;
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James Jackson Jarves, 1883;
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Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland, 1884, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
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This panel reveals a long history of changes. The initial work was painted on a single slab of wood, with strips left unpainted along the top and bottom. At an unknown time, the panel was probably cut down on the right and left sides, and the two blank strips at the top and bottom were filled in to enlarge the picture, most likely to fit its current, elaborately carved, 18th-century frame. Although these additions must have been initially more convincing, they were painted to match the yellowed and darkened original image, and thus no longer match the original paint. The flat and mismatched handling of the draperies in the lower portion also signal the intervention of a subsequent hand. The painting may have been part of an altarpiece as the predella, a long, horizontal painting along the base. The bottom of this panel exhibits signs of damage from fire and smoke, perhaps from the candles that could have been placed in front of it.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 470; Mentioned: p. 470
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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. 27, cat. no. 25
url: https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n37
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IMAGES
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