id: 127459 accession number: 1950.145 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.145 updated: 2024-04-20 10:00:10.088000 Altar Frontal with the Lamentation, c. 1474. Attributed to Cosimo Tura (Italian, c. 1430–1495), Rubinetto de Francia (Italian, active 1457–1483). Wool, silk, gold and silver threads; overall: 104.2 x 199.4 cm (41 x 78 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1950.145 title: Altar Frontal with the Lamentation title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1474 creation date earliest: 1469 creation date latest: 1479 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Ferrara technique: Wool, silk, gold and silver threads department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Tapestry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Cosimo Tura (Italian, c. 1430–1495) - designed by * Rubinetto de Francia (Italian, active 1457–1483) - woven in the workshop of --- measurements: Overall: 104.2 x 199.4 cm (41 x 78 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara opening date: 2002-01-20T00:00:00 Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (organizer) (January 20-May 12, 2002). title: Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church opening date: 2003-09-07T00:00:00 Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2003-September 26, 2004). title: Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2012-11-14T05:00:00 Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2012-December 10, 2013). title: Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2018-12-05T05:00:00 Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 5, 2018-December 2, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': '2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (December 7, 1951-January 27, 1952); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (February 27-March 25, 1952).', 'opening_date': '1952-02-27T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (November 8, 1958-January 4, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1958-11-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Le Muse e il principe: arte di corte nel Rinascimento Padano, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy (September 20-December 8, 1991).', 'opening_date': '1991-09-20T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Heinemann, Rudolf J., and Adolf Feulner. Stiftung Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz. Lugano-Castagnola: Stiftung Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz, 1937. page number: cat.596, pl. 81 url: Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952 ; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952. Hartford, Conn: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951. page number: p. 42, plate XI, p. 73 url: Shepherd, Dorothy G. ""The Lamentation," a Tapestry Antependium Designed by Cosimo Tura." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 2 (1951): 40-29. page number: p. 40-42 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141688. Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” February 19, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0014 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 214 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n48 Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: p. 30 url: Ruhmer, Eberhard. Tura: Paintings and Drawings. London: Phaidon Publ, 1958. page number: p. 7, 37, 183, pl. IIc url: Detroit Institute of Arts, and Paul L. Grigaut. Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600; The Detroit Institute of Arts [Exhibition] November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959. 1958. page number: p. 80, no. 189 url: Viale Ferrero, Mercedes. Arazzi italiani. Milano: Electa editrice, 1962. page number: p. 13, pl. 4 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. 83 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n107 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. 83 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n107 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. 96 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n116 Campbell, Stephen J., Cosmè Tura, Luke Syson, and Alan Chong. Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2002. page number: p. 259-62 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.145/1950.145_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.145/1950.145_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.145/1950.145_full.tif