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accession number: 1951.394
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Single Leaf from a Book of Hours: Pieta, c. 1475–85. Attributed to Francesco dai Libri (Italian, 1452–1506), after Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431–1506). Tempera and gold on vellum; sheet: 14 x 9.3 cm (5 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1951.394
title: Single Leaf from a Book of Hours: Pieta
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creation date: c. 1475–85
creation date earliest: 1475
creation date latest: 1485
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Italy, Verona(?), 15th century
technique: tempera and gold on vellum
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type: Manuscript
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CREATORS
* Francesco dai Libri (Italian, 1452–1506) - artist
* Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431–1506) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 14 x 9.3 cm (5 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The World of Miniature Painting
opening date: 1953-09-20T04:00:00
The World of Miniature Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 20-November 10, 1953).
title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00
Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
title: The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours
opening date: 2022-08-26T04:00:00
The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY (15 February-7 May 1995).', 'opening_date': '1995-02-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Thine Eyes Shall See, The Brooklyn Museum, New York (1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (1839–1914), St. Petersburg, Russia
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Sophie de Enden, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: -1951
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1951-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Collection M.P. Botkine. Saint-Pétersbourg: [éditeur non identifié], 1911.
page number: pp. 5-6
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page number: Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: p. 173
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141810
Metzler, Paul B. "Museum Puts Mantegna Work, Newly Acquired, on Exhibition," The Cleveland Plain Dealer (September 7, 1952).
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Art News Vol. 51 (Feb. 1953).
page number: pp. 47, 49
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Meiss, Millard. Andrea Mantegna As Illuminator; An Episode in Renaissance Art, Humanism, and Diplomacy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1957.
page number: p. 91, footnote 47
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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. 211
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. 29
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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. 86
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n110
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. 86
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n110
D'Ancona, Paolo, and E. Aeschlimann. The Art of Illumination: An Anthology of Manuscripts from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century. 1969.
page number: p. 231, pl. 137
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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. 98
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n118
Castiglioni, Gino and Sergio Marinelli. Miniatura Veronese del Rinascimento. Verona : Museo di Castelvecchio, 1986.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 83-7, III.50
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Alexander, J. J. G. The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination, 1450-1550. Munich: Prestel, 1994.
page number: cat. no. 114
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Marinelli, Sergio, Paola Marini, and Andrea Mantegna. Mantegna e le arti a Verona, 1450-1500: Verona, Gran Guardia, 16 settembre 2006-14 gennaio 2007. Venezia: Marsilio, 2006.
page number: p. 122, fig. I
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Castiglioni, Gino, and Giordana Mariani Canova. La parola illuminata: per una storia della miniatura a Verona e a Vicenza tra Medioevo e età romantica. 2011.
page number: p. 157, V.29
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Alexander, J. J. G. The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450-1600. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
page number: Mentioned: p. 320, no. 199; Reproduced: p. 108
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.
page number: Reproduced
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952/page/n5/mode/2up
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