id: 128455 accession number: 1951.394 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.394 updated: 2022-06-11 09:00:41.063000 Single Leaf from a Book of Hours: Pieta, c. 1475-1485. 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1475-1485 creation date earliest: 1475 creation date latest: 1485 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Verona(?), 15th century technique: tempera and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Francesco dai Libri (Italian, 1452–1506) - artist * Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431-1506) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 14 x 9.3 cm (5 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY (15 February-7 May 1995). * Thine Eyes Shall See, The Brooklyn Museum, New York (1956). --- PROVENANCE Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (1839–1914), St. Petersburg, Russia date: footnotes: citations: Sophie de Enden, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1951 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1951- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Collection M.P. Botkine. Saint-Pétersbourg: [éditeur non identifié], 1911. page number: pp. 5-6 url: Milliken, W. (1952). The "Pietà" by Andrea Mantegna. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 39(7). page number: pp. 172-4 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). page number: url: Art News Vol. 51 (Feb. 1953). page number: pp. 47, 49 url: 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 url: 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 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. 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 url: 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 url: Alexander, J. J. G. The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination, 1450-1550. Munich: Prestel, 1994. page number: cat. no. 114 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.394/1951.394_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.394/1951.394_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.394/1951.394_full.tif