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"tombstone": "Coronation of the Virgin, 1420s. Fra Angelico (Italian, 1400\u20131455). Tempera and gold on wood panel; framed: 45.5 x 51.5 x 8.5 cm (17 15/16 x 20 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 27 x 37.2 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection, 1944.79",
"current_location": "110A Italian Gothic",
"title": "Coronation of the Virgin",
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"measurements": "Framed: 45.5 x 51.5 x 8.5 cm (17 15/16 x 20 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 27 x 37.2 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/8 in.)",
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"id": 355548,
"title": "Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art",
"description": "Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 26, 1948).",
"opening_date": "1948-06-09T04:00:00"
},
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"title": "Gothic Art 1360-1440",
"description": "Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).",
"opening_date": "1963-08-06T04:00:00"
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"title": "Fra Angelico",
"description": "Fra Angelico. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 24, 2005-January 30, 2006).",
"opening_date": "2005-10-24T00:00:00"
}
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"description": "Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1936).",
"opening_date": "1936-01-01T00:00:00"
}
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"description": "Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (1878-1955), Rome, Italy",
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"date": "-1924",
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"description": "Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss (1865\u20131944), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"did_you_know": "Since its acquisition in 1944 the authorship of this painting has been updated from the workshop of Fra Angelico to the master himself.",
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"description": "This picture\u2019s original use is uncertain. Its size and shape are appropriate for a predella (the pedestal portion of an altarpiece), which often consists of several small panels. However, the Coronation of the Virgin almost never appears on predellas. The panel\u2019s minute detail and rich finish suggest it may have been an object for private devotion. This is believed to be an early work by Fra Angelico, whose real name was Guido di Pietro, a Dominican monk in Florence. Here, an angel holds the Virgin\u2019s train while she kneels to receive the crown offered by Christ. The scene glimmers with gold; the thrones are draped with starry tapestries, the walls are hung with gold cloth, and Christ himself radiates light.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William Mathewson. The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art. [New York]: [The Art news], 1936.",
"page_number": "cat. no. 112",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. [11], Plate I, cat. no. 1; Mentioned: p. 21, cat. no. 1",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n25"
},
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \u201cPaintings in the Prentiss Bequest.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 6 (1944)",
"page_number": "p. 87",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141132"
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{
"citation": "Angelico, and John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy. Fra Angelico. New York: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1952.",
"page_number": "p. 197",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "\u201cGothic Art 1360-1440.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963).",
"page_number": "cat. no. 79",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960"
},
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. .",
"page_number": "cat no. 14, p. 41-42",
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},
{
"citation": "Bonsanti, Giorgio, and Angelico. Beato Angelico: catalogo completo. Firenze: Octavo, 1998.",
"page_number": "pp. 115-116, cat. no. 7",
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},
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"citation": "Kanter, Laurence B., Angelico, Pia Palladino, and Magnolia Scudieri. Fra Angelico. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005.",
"page_number": "p. 9, no. 15",
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},
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"citation": "Angelico, Magnolia Scudieri, and Sara Giacomelli. Fra Giovanni Angelico: pittore miniatore o miniatore pittore? Firenze: Giunti, 2007.",
"page_number": "p. 45, fig. 37",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "Schumacher, Andreas, et. al. Florentiner Malerei: Alte Pinakothek : die Gema\u0308lde des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. [M\u00fcnchen]: Alte Pinakothek; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 230, Abb. 11.2",
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"citation": "Quene\u0301, Saskia C., and Angelico. Goldgrund und Perspektive: Fra Angelico im Glanz des Quattrocento. Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2022.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 70-71, figs. 7 & 8",
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}
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"gallery_donor_text": "Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz Gallery",
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