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"tombstone": "Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara (pair), c. 1520. Master of the Holy Blood (Netherlandish). Tempera on wood panel; framed: 91 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm (35 13/16 x 13 9/16 x 2 3/16 in.); unframed: 86.6 x 30 cm (34 1/8 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.633",
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"description": "Claude Ashley Charles Ponsonby (1859-1935), London, England",
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"description": "(Sale: Christie's, London, March 28,1908 to Mori)",
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"description": "Saint Catherine holds the sword with which she was martyred, and Saint Barbara holds both a book and a ring symbolizing her scholarly pursuits and union with God. According to legend, the leather thongs with which she was beaten were transformed into peacock plumes. These two paintings were originally the wings of an altarpiece flanking a central panel, now lost, that may have depicted the Holy Family. The identity of this artist is unknown, but he is named for a painting in the Chapel of the Holy Blood in Bruges.
Bruges flourished as an international commercial center through the 1400s and early 1500s. Among its residents were many foreign merchants and bankers who, along with the Burgundian court, patronized artists and attracted specialized craftsmen such as furriers, hatters, jewelers, and goldsmiths. Bruges\u2019s artistic production in the 1400s included celebrated artists like Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, and Gerard David who painted large altarpieces, small panels for private devotion, and portraits. Bruges also remained an important center for the production of illuminated manuscripts.",
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"citation": "Friedla\u0308nder, Max Julius. Die altniederla\u0308ndische Malerei: Joos Van Cleve, Jan Provost, Joachim Patennier. Die Altniederla\u0308ndische Malerei. Berlin: Cassirer, 1931.",
"page_number": "p. 153, no. 196",
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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": "nos. 9-10, pl. III, pp. 10, 22; Mentioned: p. 23-24",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \u201cDepartment of Paintings.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (1942).",
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"citation": "Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. 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.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. nos. 432, 436",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n80"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 3. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cat. 9, p. 22 - 24",
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"citation": "Real, W. A. (1985). Exploring New Applications for Infrared Reflectography. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 72(8).",
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"citation": "\u201cFront Matter.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 8 (1985).",
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"citation": "The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian : Master Paintings & Sculpture. New York: Sotheby\u2019s, 2025, 42-43.",
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