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"current_location": "111 German and Austrian Gothic",
"title": "Diptych with the Passion of Christ",
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"measurements": "Unframed: 45.7 x 27 cm (18 x 10 5/8 in.); Including original molding: 52.4 x 34.3 cm (20 5/8 x 13 1/2 in.)",
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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).",
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"description": "Georg Joseph Strossmayer (1815-1905), Zagreb, Yugoslavia",
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"description": "Sale?: Byzantinische Schule",
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"did_you_know": "This painting was probably not originally a diptych but part of a larger ensemble.",
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"description": "This diptych, or two-panel painting, is hinged at the center so that it could be opened and closed and easily transported. It was clearly designed as an object for private devotion. The owner would have been able to contemplate the Passion of Christ and pray before these scenes. The top two images depict Christ\u2019s scourging at the pillar and the crowning of thorns, while the lower two show Jesus before Pontius Pilate and in the Garden of Gethsemane. The scenes would have been read clockwise beginning with the lower right. On the back of these panels are remnants of paintings that have since been scraped off.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \u201cA Diptych with Four Scenes from the Passion: Close to the Hand of Master Francke.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 33, no. 1 (1946).",
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"citation": "Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1961.",
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"citation": "\u201cGothic Art 1360-1440.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963).",
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 66",
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 66",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. .",
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 74",
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"citation": "Oberhaidacher, Jo\u0308rg. Die Wiener Tafelmalerei der Gotik um 1400: Werkgruppen - Maler - Stile. Wien: Bo\u0308hlau, 2012.",
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"citation": "Salmon, Marylynn, \"Manuscripts and art support archaeological evidence that syphilis was in Europe long before explorers could have brought it home from the Americas\" The Conversation (July 13, 2022).",
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"citation": "Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.",
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