id: 106349 accession number: 1924.431 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.431 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:00.848000 Initial M[issus est] Excised from an Antiphonary: The Annunciation, 1430–1438. Stefano da Verona (Italian, c. 1375–1438). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 19.7 x 16.7 cm (7 3/4 x 6 9/16 in.); framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from J. H. Wade 1924.431 title: Initial M[issus est] Excised from an Antiphonary: The Annunciation title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1430–1438 creation date earliest: 1430 creation date latest: 1438 current location: creditline: Gift from J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: Italy, Lombardy, 15th century technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Stefano da Verona (Italian, c. 1375–1438) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 19.7 x 16.7 cm (7 3/4 x 6 9/16 in.); Framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); Matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400 opening date: 1962-10-23T04:00:00 The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (October 23-December 2, 1962). 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: 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). title: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00 When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art opening date: 1993-09-25T04:00:00 The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 19, 1993). title: Illuminated Manuscripts opening date: 2004-10-10T00:00:00 Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008). 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 (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011). title: Imagining the Garden opening date: 2015-10-24T00:00:00 Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, (October 22-December 2, 1962 (extended to Dec. 30)). * Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, University Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, (April 24-June 8, 1963). --- PROVENANCE Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice date: footnotes: citations: W. Y. Ottley (his sale London, 11 May 1838, lot 41) date: footnotes: citations: Durlacher Bros., New York date: footnotes: citations: Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice; W.Y. Ottley (his sale London, 11 May 1838, lot 41); (Durlacher Bros., New York) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This masterful initial M, colorful and crowded with playful animals and fantastic forms, recalls the announcement to the Virgin Mary by the Angel Gabriel that she will conceive and bear a son: Missus est Gabriel Angelus ad Miriam Virginem. . . . (The Angel Gabriel was sent to Mary. . . .), the response for the first Sunday in Advent. The decorated initial is related in style to a set of choir books made by Belbello for the Church of Saints Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. Belbello's style has been associated with another artist, the Master of the Murano Gradual, with whom he possibly collaborated in Venice. Belbello's career placed him in Milan, Mantua, Pavia, and Venice. His services were highly sought after by Renaissance princes, and his style was influential and widespread in northern Italy. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 213 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n48 Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.). The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400; [Exhibition]: October 23-December 2, 1962, / B. [Baltimore, Md.]: Walters Art Gallery, 1962. page number: cat. no. 76 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. A Missal for a King. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1963. page number: no. 67 url: https://archive.org/details/GothicArt1963 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. 46, pl. II 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. 60 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n84 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. 60 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n84 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. 66 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n86 Palladino, Pia. Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, 2003. page number: Reproduced: p. 106, fig. 22 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 276-277, no. 105 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.431/1924.431_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.431/1924.431_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.431/1924.431_full.tif