id:			97178
accession number:	1916.813
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.813
updated:		2023-08-23 18:16:32.346000

Madonna and Child in a Niche, c. 1520s. Attributed to Antonio del Ceraiolo (Italian). Oil on wood; framed: 87 x 72 x 5.5 cm (34 1/4 x 28 3/8 x 2 3/16 in.); unframed: 59.5 x 43.9 cm (23 7/16 x 17 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.813

title:				Madonna and Child in a Niche
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creation date:			c. 1520s
creation date earliest:		1520
creation date latest:		1529
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creditline:			Holden Collection
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culture:	Italy, 16th century
technique:	oil on wood
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Antonio del Ceraiolo (Italian)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 87 x 72 x 5.5 cm (34 1/4 x 28 3/8 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 59.5 x 43.9 cm (23 7/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Inaugural Exhibition
	opening date:   1916-06-06T05:00:00
	<i>Inaugural Exhibition</i>. 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
	<i>The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, 1916: The Inaugural Exhibition of the CMA," no. 21. <br>CMA 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition," no. 94.

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PROVENANCE

	James Jackson Jarves, sold to Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, 1884;
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	Mrs. Liberty E. Holden (Cleveland, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
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wall description:
This image of Madonna with the Christ Child on her lap has been extensively altered by restoration. During the Renaissance, it was important that the Christ Child's genitalia be exposed, for it declared that Christ is the humanization of God, that he experienced temptation, and that in his exposure, he was without shame. When it was repainted, a cloth was added to the image to cover the Christ Child's genitalia. In 1941 the removal of old overpaint returned the painting more closely to its original state.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 331; Mentioned: p. 330
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	Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. <em>Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 25, cat. no. 21
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n35

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IMAGES

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