id:			126030
accession number:	1948.25
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.25
updated:		2025-02-09 01:21:33.862000

Altar Front, c. 540–600. Early Byzantium, Constantinople or Ravenna, Byzantine period, 6th century. Marble; overall: 101 x 169.5 x 25.5 cm (39 3/4 x 66 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1948.25

title:				Altar Front
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creation date:			c. 540–600
creation date earliest:		540
creation date latest:		600
current location:		105 Byzantine
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	early Byzantium, Constantinople or Ravenna, Byzantine period, 6th century
technique:	marble
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 101 x 169.5 x 25.5 cm (39 3/4 x 66 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe
	opening date:   2010-10-17T00:00:00
	<i>Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 17, 2010-January 17, 2011); The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (February 13-May 15, 2011); The British Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (June 23-October 9, 2011).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Originally from S. Carlino (formerly S. Fabiano and S. Sebastiano), Ravenna
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	Villa Lovatelli near Ravenna
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	Villa Landau near Florence, Finaly Collection
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	(Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1948-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Miner, Dorothy Eugenia. Studies in Art and Literature for Belle Da Costa Greene. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954.
	page number: 	pp 132-142
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 83
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n29

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 37
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n61

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 37
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n59

	Brandenburg, Hugo. "Ein frühchristliches Relief in Berlin: Taf. 66-80". <em>Mitteilungen des deutschen archaeologischen Instituts roemische Abteilung</em>, Band 79 (1972)
	page number: 	pp. 126-128, plate 79
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 38
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n58

	Klein, Holger. "Himmlische Schatze: Eine internationale Ausstellung in den USA und Großbritanien widmet sich der Geschichte christlicher Reliquien und Reliquiare von der Spätantike bis zur frühen Neuzeit" <em>Das Münster</em> 63 (2010)
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	Bagnoli, Martina. <em>Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010.
	page number: 	No. 17, pp. 17-18
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	Markiewicz, Philippe. "Reliques et Reliquaires: Une Approche Chretienne du Sacre" <em>Arts Sacrés</em> No. 13, (Sept/Oct 2011)
	page number: 	pp. 48-53
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	Fliegel, Stephen N., and Stephen N. Fliegel. <em>A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages</em>. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012.
	page number: 	p. 19
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	Jäggi, Carola. Ravenna: Kunst und Kultur einer spätantiken Residenzstadt : die Bauten und Mosaiken des 5. und 6. Jahrhunderts. 2013.
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	Pentcheva, Bissera V. Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium. University Park: PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 53, fig. 23; p. 54, fig . 24
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	Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 6-9; Reproduced: p. 7
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