id: 127712 accession number: 1950.374 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.374 updated: 2022-05-10 09:00:38.510000 Miniature from a Mariegola: The Flagellation, c. 1350-75. Workshop of Lorenzo Veneziano (Italian). Tempera and gold on parchment; sheet: 29.5 x 21 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.374 title: Miniature from a Mariegola: The Flagellation title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1350-75 creation date earliest: 1345 creation date latest: 1380 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Venice technique: tempera and gold on parchment department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Lorenzo Veneziano (Italian) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 29.5 x 21 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Venetian Decorative Arts opening date: 1956-11-02T04:00:00 Venetian Decorative Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 1956-January 9, 1957). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (Nov. 24, 1953-January 16, 1954). --- PROVENANCE Erardo Aeschlimann, Milan, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1950 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1950- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Although dark in appearance now, the column in the center was originally painted to resemble green marble. digital description: This miniature shows a moment of Christ’s Passion. After receiving his death sentence, Jesus was bound to a column, mocked, and tortured. While two fearsome henchmen beat Jesus with rods, he seems to look directly at the viewer and make a connection with them. The leaf comes from a rule book of a Venetian scuole, a mariegola. Scuole were guilds and lay associations mainly for religious purposes but also for trades and crafts. Five of them were associations of flagellants, a radical movement that became particularly popular since the 1350s in the wake of the Black Death. Christ’s physical suffering served as their model for self-chastisement. wall description: This miniature shows a moment of Christ’s Passion. After receiving his death sentence, Jesus was bound to a column, mocked, and tortured. While two fearsome henchmen beat Jesus with rods, he seems to look directly at the viewer and make a connection with them. The leaf comes from a rule book of a Venetian scuola, a mariegola. Scuole were guilds and lay associations mainly for religious purposes but also for trades and crafts. Five of them were associations of flagellants, a radical movement that became particularly popular in the wake of the Black Death since the 1350s. Christ’s physical suffering served as their model for self-chastisement. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. "A Venetian Illuminated Miniature." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 10 (1951). page number: pp. 230-35 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141749 Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Loan Exhibition, Nov. 25, 1953 - Jan. 9, 1954. 1953. page number: url: Meiss, Millard. "The Case of the Frick Flagellation." The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 19/20 (1956). page number: p. 56, notes 35 & 38 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20168869 Pallucchini, Rodolfo. La pittura veneziana del Trecento. Venezia: Istituto per la collaborazione culturale, 1964. page number: p. 217, fig. 679 url: Todini, Filippo, and Milvia Bollati. Una collezione di miniature italiane: dal Duecento al Cinquecento : catalogo. Milano: Studio Nella Longari, 1993. page number: p. 7 url: Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 84-87; Reproduced: p. 85 url: Humphrey, Lyle. La miniatura per le confraternite e le arti veneziane: mariegole dal 1260 al 1460. Sommacampagna - Verona: Cierre edizioni; [Venice]: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 2015. page number: Reproduced: Tav. XIIb; Mention: P. 206-212, no. 12.2 url: Lutz, Gerhard. “Art in the Time of the Black Death.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1: (Winter 2021): 8. page number: Reproduced: P. 8. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.374/1950.374_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.374/1950.374_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.374/1950.374_full.tif