id: 106349 accession number: 1924.431 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.431 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:58.099000 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, Cleveland, OH (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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, (October 22-December 2, 1962 (extended to Dec. 30)).', 'opening_date': '1962-10-22T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, University Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, (April 24-June 8, 1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-04-24T00:00:00'} --- 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: --- 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