id: 112965 accession number: 1931.61 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.61 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:20.085000 Textile Fragment with the Annunciation, 1370–1400. Italy. Silk with gold thread; lampas weave; overall: 23.2 x 47.6 cm (9 1/8 x 18 3/4 in.); mounted: 28.6 x 53.3 cm (11 1/4 x 21 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1931.61 title: Textile Fragment with the Annunciation title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1370–1400 creation date earliest: 1370 creation date latest: 1400 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy technique: Silk with gold thread; lampas weave department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 23.2 x 47.6 cm (9 1/8 x 18 3/4 in.); Mounted: 28.6 x 53.3 cm (11 1/4 x 21 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 2000 Years of Silk Weaving opening date: 1944-01-09T05:00:00 2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944). 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: Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages opening date: 1985-01-22T05:00:00 Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985). title: Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2012-11-14T05:00:00 Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2012-December 10, 2013). title: Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2018-12-05T05:00:00 Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 5, 2018-December 2, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959)', 'opening_date': '1958-11-18T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1931 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1931– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Belgium), and Isabelle Errera. Catalogue d'étoffes anciennes et modernes décrites par Isabelle Errera. Bruxelles: Vromant, 1927. page number: url: Gertrude Underhill. "Two Fifteenth Century Brocades." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 18, no. 4 (1931): page number: 64-69. url: Accessed June 28, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25137377. Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46. page number: p. 143-146 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25138043 Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1944. page number: p. 15, catalog number 102 url: Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952. page number: p. 137, catalog number 206 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. 164 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n41 Detroit Institute of Arts, and Paul L. Grigaut. Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600; The Detroit Institute of Arts [Exhibition] November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959. 1958. page number: p. 79, catalog number 174 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. 80 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n104 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. 80 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n104 Wardwell, Anne E. 1977. “The Stylistic Development of 14th- and 15th-Century Italian Silk Design.” Aachener Kunstblätter / Hrsg. Im Auftr. Des Vorstandes Des Aachener Museumsvereins 47.1976/77(1977), 177-226. page number: p. 189-191, fig. 21 url: 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 Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. page number: p. 26, 58 url: Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” Textile History 19 (1). 1988. page number: p. 3-22 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.61/1931.61_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.61/1931.61_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.61/1931.61_full.tif