id: 115783
accession number: 1936.496
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Death of the Virgin, c. 1400. Master of Heiligenkreuz (Austrian). Tempera and oil with gold on panel; image: 66 x 53.3 cm (26 x 21 in.); framed: 74 x 61.5 x 4.5 cm (29 1/8 x 24 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 71 x 54 cm (27 15/16 x 21 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art in memory of John Long Severance 1936.496
title: Death of the Virgin
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creation date: c. 1400
creation date earliest: 1395
creation date latest: 1405
current location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic
creditline: Gift of the Friends of The Cleveland Museum of Art in memory of John Long Severance
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culture: Austria, possibly Bohemia, early 15th Century
technique: tempera and oil with gold on panel
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Medieval Art
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Master of Heiligenkreuz (Austrian) - artist
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measurements: Image: 66 x 53.3 cm (26 x 21 in.); Framed: 74 x 61.5 x 4.5 cm (29 1/8 x 24 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 71 x 54 cm (27 15/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
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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: Gothic Art 1360-1440
opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00
Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).
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. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).
title: Master of Heiligenkreuz
opening date: 2019-03-26T04:00:00
Master of Heiligenkreuz. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Wien, Austria (organizer) (March 26-June 30, 2019).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany (1926).', 'opening_date': '1926-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Walter Schnackenberg, Munich, Germany)
date: 1924
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(Jacob Hirsch, New York, NY)
date: -1936
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1936-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Buchner, Ernst. "Eine Gruppe deutscher Tafelbilder vom Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts," Beitrage zur Geschichte der deutschen Kunst I (1924).
page number: I, 2, 4, 12, fig. I
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Suida, William. Osterreichische Malerei in der Zeit Erzherzogs Ernst des Eisernen und Konig Albrechts II (Vienna, 1926).
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Baldass, Ludwig. "Review of Beitrage zur Gschichte der druschen Kunst, Belvedere, X (1926).
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Baldass, "Die Wiener Tafelmalerei von 1410-1460," Cicerone XXI Pt. I (1929).
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Milliken, William Mathewson. The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art. [New York]: [The Art news], 1936.
page number: cat. no. 198
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Oettinger, Karl, "Zu Malerei um 1400 in Osterreich," Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, n.s.x (1936).
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Francis, Henry S. “A Panel by the Master of Heiligenkreuz, a Memorial to John Long Severance.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 24, no. 10 (1937).
page number: pp. 153-156
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Ring, Grete, "Primitifs Francais," Gazette des Beaux Arts, I (1938).
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Sterling, Charles. La peinture française: les primitifs. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1938.
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Larsen-Roman, Eric and Lucy, "Les Origines Provencales du Maitre de Heiligenkreuz," Apollo Chronique des Beaux Arts (Brussels, 1943).
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Ring, "An Austrian Triptych," Art Bulletin XXVI (1944).
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p. 40
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Ring, Grete. A Century of French Painting, 1400-1500. London: Phaidon Press, 1949.
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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. 452
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Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1961.
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“Gothic Art 1360-1440.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963).
page number: cat. no. 3, repr. p. 206
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Thieme, Ulrich, and Felix Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künster von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart: unter mitwirkung von 300 Fachgelehrten des in- und Auslaudes. Leipzig: Veb E.A. Seemann Verlag, 1964.
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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. 66
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Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools. London: published by the Phaidon P. for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1966.
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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. 66
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Musper, H. Theodor. Altdeutsche Malerei. [Köln]: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1970.
page number: p. 27, 93
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Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. .
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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. 75
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Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: no. 24, pp. 27-8, 116
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Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007.
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Ilardi, Vincent. Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes. 2007.
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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.
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Nash, Susie, Till Borchert, Emma Capron, and Jim Harris. Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings. London: Sam Fogg, 2011.
page number: p 191, fig 23
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Oberhaidacher, Jörg. Die Wiener Tafelmalerei der Gotik um 1400: Werkgruppen - Maler - Stile. Wien: Böhlau, 2012.
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Gertsman, Elina. "Inciting Despair." In Emotions, Communities, and Difference in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of Barbara H. Rosenwein, Maureen C. Miller, and Edward Wheatley, 121-138. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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