id: 128353 accession number: 1951.314 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.314 updated: 2023-03-08 14:59:18.581000 Historiated Initial (O) Excised from an Antiphonary: The Donor, Gorus Fucci, Kneels before Christ, c. 1300–1350. Italy, Arezzo(?). Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment; sheet: 13.4 x 13.4 cm (5 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1951.314 title: Historiated Initial (O) Excised from an Antiphonary: The Donor, Gorus Fucci, Kneels before Christ title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1300–1350 creation date earliest: 1295 creation date latest: 1355 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Arezzo(?) technique: ink, tempera, and gold on parchment department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Sheet: 13.4 x 13.4 cm (5 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: hoc op[us] lib[r]i: gor[us] fvcii fec[it] f[ieri] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 * Gothic Art 1360-1440, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (Aug. 8-September 15, 1963). --- PROVENANCE Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch (1874-1959), New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1951 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1951- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The gentleman here has respectfully taken off his hat as he kneels before Christ. On his head remains a coif, a close- fitting cap worn by both men and women beneath hats as well as on its own. digital description: This miniature shows Gorus Fucci kneeling before Christ. His clothes characterize him as a member of the wealthy urban noble class. He wears a contemporary coiffe, a leather headgear, while his hat lies before him. The inscription translates as “Gorus Fucci had this work of a book made.” This manuscript was probably written shortly before the great plague and may have been donated to an ecclesiastical foundation. Pious foundations did not necessarily decline in the wake of the plague: new urban elites from outside emerged as benefactors, primarily focused on social institutions. wall description: This miniature shows Gorus Fucci kneeling before Christ. His clothes characterize him as a member of the wealthy urban noble class. He wears a contemporary coiffe, a leather headgear, while his hat lies before him. The inscription translates as “Gorus Fucci had this work of a book made.”

This manuscript was probably written shortly before the great plague and may have been donated to an ecclesiastical foundation. Pious foundations did not necessarily decline in the wake of the plague: new urban elites from outside emerged as benefactors, primarily focused on social institutions. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Gothic Art 1360-1440." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963). page number: p. 191, fig. 66 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.314/1951.314_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.314/1951.314_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.314/1951.314_full.tif