{ "data": { "id": 126809, "accession_number": "1949.203", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Leaf from the Wettinger Gradual: Historiated Initial (I) with Scenes from the Life of St. Augustine, c. 1330. Second Master of the Wettinger Gradual (German). Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment; sheet: 57.9 x 38.3 cm (22 13/16 x 15 1/16 in.); framed: 61.6 x 76.8 cm (24 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.); matted: 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1949.203", "current_location": null, "title": "Leaf from the Wettinger Gradual: Historiated Initial (I) with Scenes from the Life of St. Augustine", "creation_date": "c. 1330", "creation_date_earliest": 1325, "creation_date_latest": 1335, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "Germany, Lower Rhine (Cologne?), 14th century" ], "technique": "ink, tempera, and gold on parchment", "support_materials": [], "department": "Medieval Art", "collection": "MED - Manuscript Illuminations", "type": "Manuscript", "measurements": "Sheet: 57.9 x 38.3 cm (22 13/16 x 15 1/16 in.); Framed: 61.6 x 76.8 cm (24 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.)", "dimensions": { "sheet": { "height": 0.579, "width": 0.383 }, "framed": { "height": 0.616, "width": 0.768 }, "matted": { "height": 0.711, "width": 0.559 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 706794, "title": "Art in The Book", "description": "Art in The Book. 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Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).", "opening_date": "2007-05-10T00:00:00" }, { "id": 196935, "title": "The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection", "description": "The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011).", "opening_date": "2010-11-06T00:00:00" }, { "id": 289562, "title": "Visions of the Divine: Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval Germany (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115", "description": "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).", "opening_date": "2016-12-14T05:00:00" }, { "id": 376079, "title": "Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500", "description": "Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 15, 2021-January 23, 2022) https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/imperial-splendor.", "opening_date": "2021-10-15T04:00:00" } ], "legacy": [ { "description": "The Toledo Museum of Art: \"Medieval and Renaissance Music Manuscripts\" January-February, 1953, no. 41.", "opening_date": "1953-01-01T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Buffalo, The Albright Art Gallery: \"Art in the Book\" 12/5/1953-1/03/1954, no. 30.", "opening_date": "1953-12-05T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Cleveland, Severance Hall, \"Manuscripts\" December, 1957.", "opening_date": "1957-12-01T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Columbus, Ohio State University: \"Aspects of Medieval Art\" (Medieval Conference) October 31-November 22, 1958, no. 7.", "opening_date": "1958-10-31T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Berkely, University Art Gallery: \"Illuminated Manuscript Pages\" April 26-June 8, 1963, cat. no. 13, repr, pl. XIII.", "opening_date": "1963-04-26T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Providence, Rhode Island School of Design (organized by Brown University), \"Transformations in Gothic Style ca. 1300\" February 2-February 27, 1977", "opening_date": "1977-02-02T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \"The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art\" September 25-December 19, 1993.", "opening_date": "1993-09-25T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): \"Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art\"", "opening_date": "2007-05-10T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, (11/06/2010 - 04/17/2011); \"The Glory Of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collections\"", "opening_date": "2010-11-06T00:00:00" } ] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Joseph Brummer; Vladimir G. Simkhovitch", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": null } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "description": "This imposing leaf comes from the monumental Wettinger Gradual preserved in the Canton Library in Aarau, Switzerland. The focus of the decoration consists of a single massive initial I. It is constructed with four separate compartments featuring scenes from the life of Saint Augustine. The compartments read (from top to bottom): Augustine teaching before his conversion; the dream of Augustine\u2019s mother; Augustine\u2019s baptism; and Augustine teaching monks. The monk in the lower margin holds a scroll that reads in Latin: \u201cPray for us, blessed Father Augustine.\u201d The initial would have introduced the feast of Saint Augustine (August 28) in the Sanctorale: In medio Ecclesiae aperuit os eius (\u201cAnd in the midst of the church she shall open his mouth\u201d). Given the prominence of this initial within the gradual, and the depiction of an Augustinian canon in the lower marginal extender, the manuscript was likely produced for a community of Augustinians.

Influenced by Parisian manuscript painting, the illuminators added tendril extenders supporting birds, animals, and, below, an Augustinian monk in prayer. Though nothing is known of their lives or careers, both artists have working styles related to Colognese manuscript and panel painting. It is probable that this leaf, and the parent codex from which it comes, would have originally belonged to an Augustinian religious foundation in Cologne.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79906437" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1949.203-leaf-from-the-wettin" ] }, "citations": [ { "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. 53", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n77" }, { "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. 52", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n74" }, { "citation": "\u201cTwelve Additions to the Medieval Treasury.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 4 (April 1972): 87\u2013111.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 96-99, figs. 24, 27-28", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152426" }, { "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. 61", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n81" }, { "citation": "Wixom, William D. \u201cEleven Additions to the Medieval Collection.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 3 (Mar/Apr 1979): 87\u2013151.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 126, fig. 79", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159622" }, { "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 232-233, no. 85", "url": "" }, { "citation": "Bernasconi, Marina, Christoph Flu\u0308eler, and Brigitte Roux. 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