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"current_location": "117A Italian Renaissance",
"title": "Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors",
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"department": "European Painting and Sculpture",
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"measurements": "Framed: 103 x 125 x 16 cm (40 9/16 x 49 3/16 x 6 5/16 in.); Unframed: 56 x 78.8 cm (22 1/16 x 31 in.)",
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"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"
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"description": "Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1936, no. 119.",
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"did_you_know": "The two figures who kneel with their hands clasped are likely the donors who commissioned this painting.",
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"description": "This work reinterprets the most common subject in Renaissance art\u2014the Madonna and Child. The tender relationship of mother and son spoke to Mary\u2019s role as intercessor for humanity, sparked an empathetic relationship with Christ, and helped invest Christian practice with tenderness and compassion. Works at this scale were usually for private devotion, but distinct styles and refined craftsmanship were also appreciated for their artistry and creativity. Here the donors occupy the same landscape as the holy figures, emphasizing how Mary\u2019s compassion extends into our world. This painting was never finished, visible in Saint Anthony Abbot\u2019s beard and the female saint\u2019s empty hand, which makes her identity impossible to pin down.",
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"citation": "Humfrey, Peter. Cima Da Conegliano. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1983.",
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"citation": "Menegazzi, Luigi. Cima da Conegliano. Treviso: Canova, 1981.",
"page_number": "139-140",
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"citation": "Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa. Cima da Conegliano: poeta del paesaggio. Venezia: Marsilio, 2010.",
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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: p. [14], Plate IV, cat. no. 2; Mention: p. 21, cat. no. 2",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n25"
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"Department of Paintings.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (November 1942): 132-136",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 132",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141016"
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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. no. 412",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n75"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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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.",
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"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. 332; Mentioned: p. 333",
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"citation": "Nieto Ferna\u0301ndez, Luis. The painted parapet: structure and symbolism/El parapeto pintado: estructura y simbolismo. Madrid: Rayxart Investigaci\u00f3n, 2017.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 106, fig. 150; Mention: p. 296",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Sketchbook: Michelangelo: Mind of the Master. Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio, 2019.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 10",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition: June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936.",
"page_number": "53",
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},
{
"citation": "Hilary, John. Magnates & Masterpieces: The German-Jewish Collectors of Edwardian Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 209-210, fig. 12.8",
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}
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