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accession number:	1927.425.2.a
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Leaf from a Gradual: Initial (R) with Mass for the Dead (recto), c. 1480. Jacopo Filippo d' Argenta (Italian, 1501). Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment; sheet: 77 x 52 cm (30 5/16 x 20 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.425.2.a

title:				Leaf from a Gradual: Initial (R) with Mass for the Dead (recto)
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creation date:			c. 1480
creation date earliest:		1475
creation date latest:		1485
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Italy, Ferrara, 15th century
technique:	ink, tempera, and gold on parchment
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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CREATORS

* Jacopo Filippo d' Argenta (Italian, 1501)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 77 x 52 cm (30 5/16 x 20 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts
	opening date:   1963-04-24T05:00:00
	<i>Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts</i>. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (April 24-June 8, 1963).

	title:		Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara
	opening date:   2002-01-20T00:00:00
	<i>Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara</i>. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (organizer) (January 20-May 12, 2002).

	title:		The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection
	opening date:   2010-11-06T00:00:00
	<i>The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* The Toledo Museum of Art: "Medieval and Renaissance Music Manuscripts" January-February, 1953, no. 80.<br>Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 7, 2015 -

* Cleveland, Severance Hall, "Manuscripts" December, 1957.

* Berkeley, University Art Gallery, University of California: "Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XVIth Centuries" April 24-June 8, 1963, cat. no. 53, pl. XXII.

* Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 1/20/2002 - 5/12/2002.  "Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara", exh. cat. 18, pp. 251-253

* Cleveland Museum of Art, (11/06/2010 - 04/17/2011); "The Glory Of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collections"

* Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 117): December 7, 2012 - June 17, 2013.

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PROVENANCE

	Giovanni Pinni, Florence
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wall description:
This leaf was excised from a volume of a large set of choral books known to have been commissioned by Bartolomeo delle Rovere for Ferrara Cathedral. Delle Rovere, nephew of Pope Sixtus IV, was the Bishop of Ferrara from 1474 to 1494 and his arms appear in the rondel at the bottom of the page: a shield bearing an oak tree (<em>rovere</em> in Italian) surmounted by a patriarchal cross, the symbol of his rank and authority. Payment records indicate that Argenta worked on the choir books for Ferrara Cathedral from 1478 to 1486. The large historiated initial <em>R</em> dominates the extensive decoration including a realistically painted scene in which a priest (center) surrounded by acolytes stands over the body of the deceased as he reads the Office of the Dead. The ceremony takes place within a vaulted chapel that recedes in space to create the illusion of perspective.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 210
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n48

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