id: 126139 accession number: 1948.352 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.352 updated: 2024-04-16 11:02:57.425000 Altar Cloth, c. 1350. Germany, Altenberg on the Lahn, Premonstratensian Convent, 14th century. Embroidery: linen; overall: 154.3 x 374.5 cm (60 3/4 x 147 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.352 title: Altar Cloth title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1350 creation date earliest: 1345 creation date latest: 1355 current location: 115 Manuscripts & Textiles creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, Altenberg on the Lahn, Premonstratensian Convent, 14th century technique: embroidery: linen department: Textiles collection: T - Ecclesiastical type: Embroidery find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 154.3 x 374.5 cm (60 3/4 x 147 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: various motifs enclosed in quatrefoils with identifying inscriptions in Gothic letters. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Visions of the Divine: Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval Germany (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2016-12-14T05:00:00 Visions of the Divine: Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval Germany (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 14, 2016-December 4, 2017). title: Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany (Gallery 115 rotation) opening date: 2023-08-11T04:00:00 Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany (Gallery 115 rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 11, 2023-August 4, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Nuns of Altenberg on the Lahn, Hesse, Germany date: c. 1350 footnotes: citations: Duke of Solms-Braunfels date: 1806 footnotes: citations: Ikle Collection, Switzerland, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1948- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Farcy, Louis de. La Broderie, du XI siècle jusqu'à nos jours, d'après des specimens authentiques et les anciens inventaires. 1er (et 2) supplément. 1er (et 2) supplément. 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The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: p. 11 url: Embroidery, XI (Spring 1960). page number: pp. 8-10 url: Wilckens, Leonie von, "Hessische Leinenstickerein des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts," Anzeiger des Germanischen National-Museums (1954-59). page number: p. 15, fig. 8 url: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/azgnm/article/view/38138/31801 Bober, Harry. "Medieval Art at Cleveland," Apollo (Dec. 1963). page number: url: Wagner, Margarete. Sakrale Weisstickereien des Mittelalters. Esslingen: Burgbücherei W. Schneider, 1963. page number: pp. 26-27, fig. 22-24 url: Schuette, Marie, and Sigrid Müller-Christensen. The Art of Embroidery. London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. page number: [[. 98-99, fig. 154-57 url: 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. 52 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n76 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. 53 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n77 Clabburn, Pamela, and Helene Von Rosenstiel. The Needleworker's Dictionary. New York: Morrow, 1976. page number: p. 159 url: 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. 61 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n81 Dean, Beryl. Embroidery in Religion and Ceremonial. London: Batsford, 1981. page number: figs. 3-4 url: Aldenkirchen, J., "Früh-mittelalterliche Leinen-Stickereien," Jahrbücher des Vereins Von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande, LXXIX (Bonn, Universitätsdruckerei, 1985). page number: pp. 260-65 url: Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. page number: pp. 24-5 url: Dawson, Barbara. White Work: Embroidery. London: Batsford, 1987. page number: Contents Page url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009. page number: p. 71, fig. 60 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: p. 120-1 url: Seeberg, Stefanie. 2012. "Women As Makers of Church Decoration: Illustrated Textiles at the Monasteries of Altenberg/Lahn, Rupertsberg, and Heiningen (13th - 14th C.)". In Martin, Therese, ed. Reassessing the Roles of Women As 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture. Visualising the Middle Ages, V. 7, 1-2. Leiden: Brill, 2012. page number: vol. 1, chapter 10, p. 355-391 url: Seeberg, Stefanie. Textile Bildwerke im Kirchenraum: Leinenstickereien im Kontext mittelalterlicher Raumausstattungen aus dem Prämonstratenserinnenkloster Altenberg/Lahn. 2014. page number: p. 214-217 url: Sander, Jochen. Schaufenster des Himmels: der Altenberger Altar und seine Bildausstattung = Heaven on display : the Altenberg altar and its imagery. 2016. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.352/1948.352_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.352/1948.352_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.352/1948.352_full.tif