id: 123024 accession number: 1943.280 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.280 updated: 2025-02-09 00:58:35.588000 Processional Cross, c. 1320. Master of Santa Chiara (Italian). Oil on canvas on wood; unframed: 61.3 x 44.2 x 2.6 cm (24 1/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.280 title: Processional Cross title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1320 creation date earliest: 1315 creation date latest: 1325 current location: 110A Italian Gothic creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Umbria, 14th century technique: oil on canvas on wood department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Renaissance type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Master of Santa Chiara (Italian) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 61.3 x 44.2 x 2.6 cm (24 1/8 x 17 3/8 x 1 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi opening date: 1999-03-15T00:00:00 The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 15-June 27, 1999). title: The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination opening date: 2013-02-17T00:00:00 The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-June 2, 2013). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy date: footnotes: citations: Achille de Clemente, Florence (New York sale Jan 15, 1931) date: ?-1931 footnotes: citations: William Randolph Hearst (New York, NY Sale 1941) date: 1931-1941 footnotes: citations: (Mr. Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1941-1943 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh date: 1943- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm), and Achille de Clemente. Italian Furniture of the Renaissance: Rare Majolica, Brocades, Velvets, Renaissance Bronzes, Sculptures, Stone and Terra Cotta Groups, Primitive and Renaissance Paintings. [New York]: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 1931. page number: p. 169, cat. no. 491 url: Francis, Henry S. "A Fifteenth-Century Florentine Processional Cross." 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