id: 423576 accession number: 1949.204.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.204.a updated: 2022-01-04 18:15:02.521000 Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion (recto), c. 1330-40. Bohemia. Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment; sheet: 35.4 x 23.5 cm (13 15/16 x 9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1949.204.a title: Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion (recto) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1330-40 creation date earliest: 1325 creation date latest: 1345 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Bohemia technique: ink, tempera, and gold leaf on parchment department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Sheet: 35.4 x 23.5 cm (13 15/16 x 9 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Religious Art from Byzantium to Chagall, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY (Dec. 13, 1964- Jan. 10, 1965). --- PROVENANCE Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch (1874-1959), New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1949 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1949- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Below the cross a small skull is visible, Golgotha the site of the crucifixion was often translated as "place of the skull." digital description: The crucified Christ was a central theme of medieval visual art. Each period set its own artistic and iconographic priorities, depending on the function and context of the works. For example, the dead Christ with his head bowed, the side wound dripping with blood, and the richly designed loincloth is characteristic of the 1300s. This miniature is localized to Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic and Slovakia), with its capital, Prague, as a leading art center of its time. The great plague, however, does not seem to have triggered a surge of innovation here. wall description: The crucified Christ was a central theme of medieval visual art. Each period set its own artistic and iconographic priorities, depending on the function and context of the works. For example, the dead Christ with his head bowed, the side wound dripping with blood, and the richly designed loincloth is characteristic of the 1300s. This miniature is probably from Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic and Slovakia), with its capital Prague as a leading art center of its time. The great plague, however, does not seem to have triggered a surge of innovation there. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ricci, Seymour de. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Supplement. New York: Bibliographical Society, 1961. page number: url: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, and Your Neighbor's Faith (Group). Religious Art from Byzantium to Chagall: [Catalogue of] a Loan Exhibition, Dec. 13, 1964 to Jan. 10, 1965. 1965. page number: no. 38 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.204.a/1949.204.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.204.a/1949.204.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.204.a/1949.204.a_full.tif