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accession number: 1924.747
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Ivory Box with Scenes of Adam and Eve, 1000–1100s. Byzantium, Constantinople, Byzantine period. Ivory, wood; overall: 14.3 x 46.7 x 20.3 cm (5 5/8 x 18 3/8 x 8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of W. G. Mather, F. F. Prentiss, John L. Severance, J. H. Wade 1924.747
title: Ivory Box with Scenes of Adam and Eve
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creation date: 1000–1100s
creation date earliest: 1000
creation date latest: 1200
current location: 105 Byzantine
creditline: Gift of W. G. Mather, F. F. Prentiss, John L. Severance, J. H. Wade
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culture: Byzantium, Constantinople, Byzantine period
technique: ivory, wood
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Byzantine
type: Ivory
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 14.3 x 46.7 x 20.3 cm (5 5/8 x 18 3/8 x 8 in.)
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inscription: Greek inscriptions are included in each plaque.
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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: 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: 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); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Early Christian and Byzantine Art. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, (April 24-June 24, 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-04-24T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Monsignor Béthune, Ghent
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(Lucien Demotte, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.)
date: ?-1924
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1924
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Graeven, Hans. “Adamo ed Eva sui Cofanetti d’Avorio Bizantini.” L’Arte, 2 (1899): 297-315.
page number: Reproduced: p. 302-303
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Venturi, Adolfo. Storia dell'arte italiana. Milano: U. Hoepli, 1901.
page number: p. 602
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Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Belgium), and Joseph Destrée. Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte. Bruxelles: Bruyland, 1902.
page number: No. 4
url:
Dalton, O. M. Byzantine Art and Archaeology. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1911.
page number: p. 218
url:
Frary, I.T. "Ivory Coffert," The Buckeye (September 1924).
page number: p. 11
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Milliken, William M. "A Byzantine Ivory Casket." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 12, no. 1 (1925)
page number: pp. 5-13
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25136818
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. 12
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n14
The Graphic London(1926).
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Gibson, Katharine. “In Spite of Curators.” The American Magazine of Art 17, no. 11 (November 1926): 565-568.
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Eastman, Alvan C. "Byzantine Ivories in American Museums," Art in America 15 (June 1927).
page number: pp. 157-68
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
page number: Reproduced: p. 12
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n16
Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936.
page number: p. 18
url:
Shoolman, Regina, and Charles E. Slatkin. The Enjoyment of Art in America, A Survey of the Permanent Collections of Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics & Decorative Arts in American and Canadian Museums: Being an Introduction to the Masterpieces of Art from Prehistoric to Modern Times. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1942.
page number: p. 792
url:
Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947.
page number: no. 118, pl. XXIV
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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. 86
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n29
Panofsky, Erwin. Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
page number: p. 45, fig. 25
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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. 41
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n65
Lassus, Jean. The Early Christian and Byzantine World. London: Hamlyn, 1967.
page number: pp. 163-64, fig. 98
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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. 41
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n63
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. 43
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n63
Bernabò, Massimo. Considerazioni sul manoscritto laurenziano plut. 5.38 e sulle miniature della Genesi degli Ottateuchi bizantini. 111, 8, 1 (1978).
page number: pp. 135-157, pl. IX, fig. 1
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Frye, Roland Mushat. Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts: Iconographic Tradition in the Epic Poems. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978.
page number: p. 140, pl. 220
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Goldschmidt, Adolph, and Kurt Weitzmann. Die byzantinischen Elfenbeinskulpturen des X-XIII Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Brnuo Cassirer, 1930.
page number: No. 67a-e, pls. XLVII, XLVIII
url:
Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, and Liz James. Desire and Denial in Byzantium: Papers from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1997. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1999.
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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: Cat. No. 25, p. 88-89
url:
Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007.
page number: p. 78-81, No. 23
url:
WIlson, Justin. "The Origin of the Crafts According to Byzantine Rosette Caskets." West 86th, 27 No. 2 (Fall-Winter 2020): 197-215.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 197 - 201, figs. 1 and 4.
url:
Couzin, Robert. Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art. Boston : Brill, 2021, 26.
page number: Mentioned; p. 26, n. 30.
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