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"title": "Early Christian and Medieval Art",
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"title": "When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story",
"description": "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).",
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"title": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).",
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"description": "Exposition d'Art Byzantin, Paris, (March 28 - July 1931); cat. no. 653. (Phanar Gospel with the Mark and John still in it)",
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"id": 121708,
"description": "Gospel Book with Commentaries, c. 1000\u20131100. Byzantium, Constantinople. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leather binding; sheet: 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1942.152",
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"description": "Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Matthew, 1057\u20131063. Byzantium, Constantinople. Tempera and gold on vellum; sheet: 28.8 x 24.3 cm (11 5/16 x 9 9/16 in.); framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1942.1512",
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"did_you_know": "Commissioning a lectionary was a way for patrons to show their devotion to a particular church.",
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"description": "These leaves are from a lectionary (a book of gospel readings used in church services) that was presented to the Holy Trinity Monastery at Chalke in Constantinople by the Empress Katherine Komnene in 1063. The tools of the scribe\u2019s trade are laid out before the evangelists: a stylus (a pointed tool for writing, drawing, and engraving), a pair of dividers (a device resembling a compass, used for dividing lines and transferring measurements), pens, a knife, a burnisher (polishing tool), and inkpots. Portraits of the authors of the Gospels\u2014Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John\u2014appear frequently in gospel books throughout the Christian world. Understood to be eyewitnesses to the texts they wrote, their presence in these books served to \u201cauthenticate\u201d the gospels.",
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"citation": "Charles Diehl. \u201cL\u2019Eveng\u00e9laire de l\u2019Imp\u00e9ratice Catherine Commn\u00e8ne\u201d Compte Rendu de S\u00e9ances de l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (Paris, 1922)",
"page_number": "pp 243-248",
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"citation": "Diehl, Charles, \u201cMonuments Byzantins In\u00e9dits du Onzi\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle\u201d Art Studies: Medieval, Renaissance and Modern. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927.",
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"citation": "Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, and Exposition Internationale d'Art Byzantin. Exposition Internationale d'Art Byzantin 28 mai - 9 juillet 1931, Mus\u00e9e des Arts D\u00e9coratifs, Palais du Louvre. 1931.",
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{
"citation": "Clark, Kenneth W. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. 1937.",
"page_number": "pp. 122-3",
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{
"citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cByzantine Manuscript Illumination\u201d The Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 34 (March 1947)",
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"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947.",
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"citation": "William M. Milliken, \"Early Christian and Byzantine Art in America,\" The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (June 1947)",
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"citation": "Martin, John Rupert. The Illustration of The Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954.",
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"citation": "Capps, Edward Jr. \"Byzantine Manuscript Illumination.\" Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin XV (Winter 1958)",
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},
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"citation": "K.M. Swoboda, \"In der Jahren 1950 bis 1961 erschienede Werke zur byzantinischen und weiteren ostchristthchen Kunst\" Kunstgeschichliche Anzeigen 5 (1961/2)",
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"citation": "Ricci, Seymour de, William Jerome Wilson, Christopher Urdahl Faye, and William Henry Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts: In the United States and Canada. New York, N.Y.: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.",
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"citation": "Wixom, William D. \u201cThe Byzantine Art Exhibition at Athens\u201d The Art Quarterly Vol. 27 No. 4 (1964)",
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"citation": "Hayward, Helena, and Douglas Ash. World Furniture: An Illustrated History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.",
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"citation": "Wixom, William D. \u201cA Manuscript Painting from Cluny\u201d Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin LVI (April 1969)",
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"citation": "Vikan, Gary, and Kurt Weitzmann. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. Princeton (N.J.): Princeton Univ. Press, 1973.",
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"citation": "Evans, Helen C. The Glory of Byzantium: Art an Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era A.D. 843-1261 ; [in Conjunction with the Exhibition \"The Glory of Byzantium\", Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from March 11 Through July 6, 1997]. New York, NY: Abrams, 1997.",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N., \"St. Luke in Ethiopia\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 40 no. 04, April 2000",
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