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"tombstone": "Portrait of a Monk, early 1500s. Circle of Gerard David (Netherlandish, 1450/60\u20131523). Oil on wood; framed: 54.5 x 48.5 x 5.5 cm (21 7/16 x 19 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.); unframed: 36 x 30.4 cm (14 3/16 x 11 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.632",
"current_location": "112 Northern Renaissance",
"title": "Portrait of a Monk",
"creation_date": "early 1500s",
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"male"
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"culture": [
"Flanders, Bruges"
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"technique": "oil on wood",
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"department": "Medieval Art",
"collection": "MED - Medieval Art",
"type": "Painting",
"measurements": "Framed: 54.5 x 48.5 x 5.5 cm (21 7/16 x 19 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 36 x 30.4 cm (14 3/16 x 11 15/16 in.)",
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"framed": {
"height": 0.545,
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"width": 0.485,
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"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 335856,
"title": "Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection",
"description": "Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).",
"opening_date": "1942-11-12T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 302205,
"title": "Art and Humanism in the Renaissance",
"description": "Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).",
"opening_date": "1962-01-23T05:00:00"
}
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"description": "Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1907; John L. Severance, Cleveland. John L. Severance Collection, 1936.",
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"description": "This panel originally formed the right half of a diptych, a hinged two-paneled painting used for private worship. The missing left panel probably depicted the Virgin and Child. The entire composition showed the monk, with his prayer book open, kneeling in an interior before Mary and the infant Jesus. This panel is very similar to another painting of a monk now in the National Gallery (London) by Gerard David. Although we do not know the monk's name, he must have lived in the Netherlandish city of Bruges, because behind him appear two of that city's most famous towers: on the left is that of the Onze Lieve Vrouw (Our Dear Lady) Church; the Cathedral of the Saviour is on the right. Also, his simple gray garment and tonsure indicate that he likely belonged to an Augustinian religious community.",
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"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1942.632-portrait-of-a-monk"
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"citation": "Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: Vol. 2, p. [12], Pl. II, cat. no. 12; Mention: Vol. 2, p. 22, cat. no. 12",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n26"
},
{
"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"Department of Paintings.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (November 1942): 132-136
Published as \"An Abbot Praying\" and attributed to an anonymous painter.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 132",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141016"
},
{
"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. 439",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n80"
},
{
"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. 69",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n93"
},
{
"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. 69",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n93"
},
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 83",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n103"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 46; Mentioned: p. 47",
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},
{
"citation": "Johnston, William M. Encyclopedia of Monasticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 1042",
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}
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"gallery_donor_text": "Lucia Smith Nash Gallery",
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"description": "Gerard David (Netherlandish, 1450/60\u20131523)",
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"biography": "Born in Oudewater (near Gouda), David probably trained in Haarlem. Admitted (as a foreigner) to the painters' guild in 1484, he was active there until his death in 1523. He was also inscribed in the painters' guild in Antwerp, 1515.",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:17:56.895000"
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