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"tombstone": "Adoration of the Magi, early 1440s. Konrad Laib (German). Oil on panel; image: 98 x 61.6 cm (38 9/16 x 24 1/4 in.); framed: 111 x 75 x 7.5 cm (43 11/16 x 29 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 100.2 x 64 cm (39 7/16 x 25 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds, 1936.18",
"current_location": "111 German and Austrian Gothic",
"title": "Adoration of the Magi",
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"title": "Five Centuries of German Art",
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"description": "Gotik in Osterreich, Osterreichisches Museum fur Kins und Industrie, Vienna, Austria (September 15-November 8, 1926).",
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"description": "(A. S. Drey, Munich, Germnay and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "A companion piece to this one is in the Freising Seminary in Germany and depicts the Nativity.",
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"description": "Laib was a German painter who spent most of his career in Austria. Proof that he came to Salzburg at an early age is suggested by the stylistic affinity of many of his works with Salzburg painting, including this one.",
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"citation": "O\u0308sterreichisches Museum fu\u0308r Kunst und Industrie. Ausstellung Gotik in O\u0308sterreich, veranstaltet vom Verein der Museumgreund in Wein im O\u0308sterreichischen Museum fu\u0308r Kunst und Industrie, 15. September bis 8. November 1926. [Wien]: [Krystall-Verlag], 1926.",
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"citation": "Furlong, George J. \"Austrian Gothic Art in Vienna,\" Burlington Magazine XLIX (1926).",
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"citation": "Pa\u0308cht, Otto. Os\u0308terreichische Tafelmalerei der Gotik. Augsburg: Dr. B. Filser, 1929.",
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"citation": "Baldass, Ludwig. \"Der Meister des Grazer Dombildes und Seine Kunstgeschichtliche Stellung,\" Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien n.s. IV (1930).",
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"citation": "Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1934.",
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"citation": "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": "cat. no. 199, pl XL",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \u201cAn Austrian Primitive for the Holden Collection.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 23, no. 9 (1936).",
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"citation": "Oettinger, Karl. Altdeutsche Maler der Ostmark. Wien: Anton Schroll, 1942.",
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"citation": "Fischer, Otto, \"Konrad Laib,\" Pantheon XXXI (1943).",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n49"
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Early German Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art,\" American German Review XXI/2 (1954-1955).",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n83"
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"citation": "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. 67",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n91"
},
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"citation": "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. 67",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n91"
},
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. .",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n97"
},
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"citation": "Laib, Conrad, and Arthur Saliger. Conrad Laib. Wien: O\u0308sterreichische Galerie Belvedere, 1997.",
"page_number": "p. 36",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Ko\u0308llermann, Antje-Fee. Conrad Laib: ein spa\u0308tgotischer Maler aus Schwaben in Salzburg. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag fu\u0308r Kunstwissenschaft, 2007.",
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