id: 128824 accession number: 1951.445 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.445 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:09.626000 Pendant Icon with the Virgin "Dexiokratousa" and Frame with Winged Bull of Saint Luke on the back, Pendant 1100s; Frame mid 1300s. Byzantium (pendant); Germany, Aachen (frame), Byzantine period, 12th century (pendant); Byzantine period, 14th century (frame). Steatite, gilt silver, pearls; overall: 6.8 x 6.3 x 1.6 cm (2 11/16 x 2 1/2 x 5/8 in.); chain: 13.6 cm (5 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1951.445 title: Pendant Icon with the Virgin "Dexiokratousa" and Frame with Winged Bull of Saint Luke on the back title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: Pendant 1100s; Frame mid 1300s creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1400 current location: 105 Byzantine creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Byzantium (pendant); Germany, Aachen (frame), Byzantine period, 12th century (pendant); Byzantine period, 14th century (frame) technique: steatite, gilt silver, pearls department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Byzantine type: Glyptic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 6.8 x 6.3 x 1.6 cm (2 11/16 x 2 1/2 x 5/8 in.); Chain: 13.6 cm (5 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). title: Charlemagne opening date: 1965-06-26T04:00:00 Charlemagne. Hisotorical town hall, cathedral and cloister, Aachen, Germany (June 26-September 19, 1965). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Treasury of the Cathedral of Aachen; bequeathed in 1804 to the Empress Joséphine of France (1763-1814), Paris; by inheritance to her son Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, prince of Venice and duke of Leuchtenberg (1781-1824), Paris; Henri Daguerre, Paris; César de Hauke, Paris date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This small-scale Byzantine icon depicts a half-length figure of the Virgin holding the Christ child. When the icon was mounted in its present frame by a German artist in the 14th century, it was considered to be an authentic portrait painted by Saint Luke. This claim, made in an inscription on the frame, is further emphasized by the ox, Saint Luke’s symbol, engraved on the frame’s reverse. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 40 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n64 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. 40 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n62 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. 42 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n62 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 76-77, no. 20 url: Bagnoli, Martina. Treasures of heaven: saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 114, p. 199 - 200 url: Fajt, Jiří. Emperor Charles IV: 1316-2016 : Exhibition Guide : National Gallery in Prague - Waldstein Riding School, 15 May - 25 September 2016, Charles University in Prague - Karolinum, Cloister, 14 May - 31 August 2016. Prague : National Gallery, 2016. page number: Mentioned: p. 56; Reproduced: p. 57 url: Fajt, Jiří, and Markus Hörsch, eds. Kaiser Karl IV., 1316-2016: erste Bayerisch-Tschechische Landesausstellung : Ausstellungskatalog. Praha: Národní Galerie v Praze, 2016. page number: Mentioned: p. 366-367; Reproduced: p. 366, fig. 6.4 url: Zchomelidse, Nino. "Liminal Phenomena: Framing Medieval Cult Images with Relics and Words." Viator. 47, no. 3 (2016): 243-296. page number: Mentioned: p. 264-265; Reproduced: p. 290, fig. 21 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.445/1951.445_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.445/1951.445_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.445/1951.445_full.tif