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"tombstone": "Initial D[eus in loco] with a Prophet Excised from a Gradual, 1409\u201310. Lorenzo Monaco (Italian, c. 1370\u20131425). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 16.7 x 16 cm (6 9/16 x 6 5/16 in.); framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1949.536",
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"title": "Initial D[eus in loco] with a Prophet Excised from a Gradual",
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"id": 706794,
"title": "Art in The Book",
"description": "Art in The Book. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (December 5, 1953-January 3, 1954).",
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"title": "Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts",
"description": "Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (April 24-June 8, 1963).",
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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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"title": "Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage",
"description": "Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).",
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"title": "Italian Renaissance Illuminations",
"description": "Italian Renaissance Illuminations. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (organizer) (December 16, 1973-February 15, 1974).",
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"title": "The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art",
"description": "The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 19, 1993).",
"opening_date": "1993-09-25T04:00:00"
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"title": "Illuminated Manuscripts",
"description": "Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005).",
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"title": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. 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"
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"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"
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"description": "Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, \"Art in the Book\" December 5, 1953-January 3, 1954, cat. no. 14.",
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"description": "Berkeley, University Art Gallery, University of California, \"Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts\" April 24-June 8, 1963, cat. no. 44, pl. XL.",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, \"Gothic Art, 1360-1440\" August 8-September 15, 1963, no. 64.",
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"description": "CMA: \"Florence and the Arts-Five Centries of Patronage\" 1971, no. 45, repr.",
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"description": "Atlanta, The High Museum, \"Italian Renaissance Illuminations,\" December 16, 1973-February 15, cat. no. 38, fig. 10.",
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"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"
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"description": "New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, \"Paintings and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450\" November 18, 1994-February 26, 1995.",
"opening_date": "1994-11-18T00:00:00"
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/10/2004 - 10/02/2005); \"Illuminated Manuscripts\"",
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"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\"",
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"description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, (11/06/2010 - 04/17/2011); \"The Glory Of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collections\"",
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"description": "Vladimir Simkovitch (New York)",
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"description": "This jewel-like initial is one of a series of prophet portraits painted by Lorenzo in a set of choir books commissioned by the church of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence. Striking for its blue and orange-red foliage, the initial is set against a highly burnished gold ground decorated with punch marks, much like a small panel painting. The initial begins the Introit (introductory section) to the Mass for the eleventh Sunday after Pentacost: Deus in loco sancto suo (God is in his holy place). Lorenzo, who was a Camaldolese monk, produced a vast quantity of work\u2014illuminations, panel paintings, and frescos\u2014an indication that his art was highly esteemed and sought after during his lifetime.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cMiniatures by Lorenzo Monaco and Francesco Del Cherico.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 37, no. 3 (March 1950): 43\u201349.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 43-44",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141618"
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"citation": "\u201cGothic Art 1360-1440.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (September 1963): 174\u2013215.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 184, no. 64",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960"
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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.",
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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.",
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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. 68",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n88"
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"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.",
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