id: 127712
accession number: 1950.374
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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
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creation date: c. 1350-75
creation date earliest: 1345
creation date latest: 1380
current location:
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Italy, Venice
technique: tempera and gold on parchment
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type: Manuscript
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CREATORS
* Lorenzo Veneziano (Italian) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 29.5 x 21 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (Nov. 24, 1953-January 16, 1954).
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PROVENANCE
Erardo Aeschlimann, Milan, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1950
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1950-
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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.
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RELATED WORKS
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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.
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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
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Todini, Filippo, and Milvia Bollati. Una collezione di miniature italiane: dal Duecento al Cinquecento : catalogo. Milano: Studio Nella Longari, 1993.
page number: p. 7
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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
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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
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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.
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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