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"tombstone": "Textile Fragment with the Annunciation, 1370\u20131400. 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",
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"title": "Textile Fragment with the Annunciation",
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"title": "Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115",
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"title": "Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115",
"description": "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).",
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"description": "Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959)",
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"description": "The motif shown here depicts the Virgin Mary and the angel Gabriel in a repeating sequence. Both figures kneel above a bed of flowers while a dove representing the Holy Ghost hovers above. The ground of this luxury silk, woven with highlights of gold thread, is now a faded blue. Its original purpose is not clear, but it may have originally been part of an altar frontal or possibly an ecclesiastical cope, or cape.",
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"citation": "Muse\u0301es royaux d'art et d'histoire (Belgium), and Isabelle Errera. Catalogue d'e\u0301toffes anciennes et modernes de\u0301crites par Isabelle Errera. Bruxelles: Vromant, 1927.",
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"url": "Accessed June 28, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25137377."
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"citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. \"Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46.",
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"citation": "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.",
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"citation": "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",
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"citation": "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.",
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"citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. 1977. \u201cThe Stylistic Development of 14th- and 15th-Century Italian Silk Design.\u201d Aachener Kunstbla\u0308tter / Hrsg. Im Auftr. Des Vorstandes Des Aachener Museumsvereins 47.1976/77(1977), 177-226.",
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