id: 106348 accession number: 1924.430 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.430 updated: 2025-02-15 12:46:35.585000 Illumination Excised from a Choir Book: Two Female Angels, c. 1332. Niccolo di ser Sozzo Tegliacci (Italian, Siena, active 1334–63). Tempera and gold on parchment; sheet: 8.2 x 7.3 cm (3 1/4 x 2 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from J. H. Wade 1924.430 title: Illumination Excised from a Choir Book: Two Female Angels title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1332 creation date earliest: 1327 creation date latest: 1337 current location: creditline: Gift from J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: Italy, Siena technique: tempera and gold on parchment department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Niccolo di ser Sozzo Tegliacci (Italian, Siena, active 1334–63) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 8.2 x 7.3 cm (3 1/4 x 2 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 4, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Exhibition of the Month: Masterpieces in Miniature opening date: 1949-06-03T04:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: Masterpieces in Miniature. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 3-August 29, 1949). title: Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts opening date: 1963-04-24T05:00:00 Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (April 24-June 8, 1963). title: Exhibition of Sienese and Florentine Manuscripts opening date: 1965-02-24T05:00:00 Exhibition of Sienese and Florentine Manuscripts. Wildenstein & Co., London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (February 24-April 10, 1965). title: The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection opening date: 2010-11-06T00:00:00 The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011). title: Stories from Storage opening date: 2021-02-06T05:00:00 Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Medieval Art from XII to XV Centuries, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH (Dec. 1948-January 1949).', 'opening_date': '1948-12-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Pages of Medieval and Renaissance Illuminate Manuscripts from the Xth to the XVIth Centauries: An Exhibition organized by William Mathewson Milliken, University Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA (April 24-June 8, 1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-04-24T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Durlacher Brothers, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: -1924 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1924- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS W. M. M. "Illuminated Miniatures in the Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 12, no. 4 (1925). page number: pp. 64, 67 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25136832 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 21 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n23 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 22 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n26 Milliken, William M. "An Illuminated Miniature by Niccolo di ser Sozzo de Ricci" Art in America XIII (1925). page number: pp. 160-6, no. 24, 430 url: 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. 155 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n40 Milliken, William Mathewson. Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the Early XVIth Centuries: An Exhibition. Berkeley: University of California, 1963. page number: Cat. no. 31, p. 22, pl. XXVIII url: 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. 54 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n78 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. 54 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n78 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. 63 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n83 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.430/1924.430_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.430/1924.430_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.430/1924.430_full.tif