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"tombstone": "Virgin and Child, 1400s. Possibly by Icilio Federico Joni (Italian, 1866\u20131946), workshop of Sano di Pietro (Italian, 1406\u20131481). Tempera and gold on wood; framed: 30.5 x 22.9 x 3.2 cm (12 x 9 x 1 1/4 in.); unframed: 24.2 x 16.6 cm (9 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon, 1944.56",
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"title": "Virgin and Child",
"creation_date": "1400s",
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"culture": [
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"technique": "tempera and gold on wood",
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"department": "Medieval Art",
"collection": "MED - Medieval Art",
"type": "Painting",
"measurements": "Framed: 30.5 x 22.9 x 3.2 cm (12 x 9 x 1 1/4 in.); Unframed: 24.2 x 16.6 cm (9 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.)",
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"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 312517,
"title": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition",
"description": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).",
"opening_date": "1936-06-26T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 355520,
"title": "The Madonna in Art",
"description": "The Madonna in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 9, 1947-February 9, 1948).",
"opening_date": "1947-12-09T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 184084,
"title": "Object in Focus: 15th Century Sienese Paintings: A Question of Forgery",
"description": "Object in Focus: 15th Century Sienese Paintings: A Question of Forgery. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-May 11, 2003).",
"opening_date": "2003-03-11T00:00:00"
}
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"description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 11- May 11, 2003. \" Object in Focus: 15th Century Sienese Paintings: A Question of Forgery\".",
"opening_date": "2003-03-11T00:00:00"
}
]
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"provenance": [
{
"description": "Mrs. B. B. Cleck; Henry White Cannon, Fiesole (1923)",
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"former_accession_numbers": [
"2651.29"
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"description": "This picture has at times been seen as a forgery due to its seemingly excellent state of preservation and the simplicity of the composition. It was cleaned, retouched, and re-varnished in the 1960s, giving it an even, shiny surface, hiding to some extent its original appearance. This treatment was probably undertaken to address the losses to the Christ child's hair and the discoloration and abrasion of the Virgin's mantle. Also problematic is the restoration of the frame and sides of the panel, which obscure the age of the work. However, both the panel itself and the pigments employed prove that this is a 15th-century painting\u2014though of lesser quality than the CMA's Virgin and Child Adored by Saints (1924.199). In particular, the Virgin's robe appears to have been painted originally with the pigment azurite, a less costly mineral pigment used as an alternative to ultramarine (made of powdered lapis lazuli). The use of this less expensive material, along with the picture's small size and simple composition, suggest that it was made by a member of Sano's workshop and not Sano himself.",
"external_resources": {
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"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60515022"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1944.56-virgin-and-child"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"'Madonna and Child' by Sano di Pietro: Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 7 (September 1944): 143-144.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 143",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141149"
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 41, p. 117",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Saunders, Linnaea, E., \"A Question of Forgery\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 43 no. 04, April 2003",
"page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-04/page/n3"
},
{
"citation": "Lisby, Darnell-Jamal, William Griswold, Matteo Augello, Alessandra Arezzi Boza, Massimiliano Capella, Luke Meagher, Stefania Ricci, and Cleveland Museum of Art. Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 119, pl. 14",
"url": ""
}
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"updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:23:36.701000"
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