id: 120924
accession number: 1941.63
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.63
updated: 2025-03-05 12:07:40.725000
Writing Casket, c. 1525. Workshop of Severo da Ravenna (Italian, c.1496-c.1543). Bronze; overall: 16 x 21.3 x 14 cm (6 5/16 x 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1941.63
title: Writing Casket
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creation date: c. 1525
creation date earliest: 1520
creation date latest: 1530
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Italy, Ravenna, 16th century
technique: bronze
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Sculpture
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Severo da Ravenna (Italian, c.1496-c.1543) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 16 x 21.3 x 14 cm (6 5/16 x 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Triumph of Humanism
opening date: 1977-10-22T04:00:00
The Triumph of Humanism. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (October 22, 1977-January 9, 1978).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Hermann Goldschmidt (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1941.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Winter, Patrick M. de. “Recent Accessions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts, Part I: Incorporating Notes on the Sculptor Severo Da Ravenna.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 3 (March 1986): 74–138.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 126, fig. 136
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159934
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.63/1941.63_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.63/1941.63_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.63/1941.63_full.tif