id: 129192 accession number: 1951.92 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.92 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:22.295000 Samite fragments with double-headed eagles, from the tomb of Saint Bernard Calvo, 1200–1243. Probably Byzantium. Samite: silk; overall: 118 x 165 cm (46 7/16 x 64 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1951.92 title: Samite fragments with double-headed eagles, from the tomb of Saint Bernard Calvo title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1200–1243 creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1243 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: probably Byzantium technique: samite: silk department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 118 x 165 cm (46 7/16 x 64 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: East-West in Art opening date: 1966-06-22T04:00:00 East-West in Art. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN. title: Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries opening date: 1991-11-26T05:00:00 Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Spanish Medieval Art. The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (December 15, 1954-January 30, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1954-12-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'East-West in Art, Indiana University Museum, Bloomington, IN (June 22-October 15, 1966).', 'opening_date': '1966-06-22T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE originally from tomb of St. Bernard Calvo, Bishop of Vich, 1233-1243. (Paul O. Berliz, New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Shepherd, Dorothy G. "The Third Silk from the Tomb of Saint Bernard Calvo." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 1 (1952): 13-14. page number: p. 13-14 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141758. New York University. Spanish Medieval Art. Loan Exhibition in Honor of Dr. Walter W.S. Cook. 1954. page number: p. 21, no. 66 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. 118 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n35 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. 218 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n242 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. 218 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n242 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. 275 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n295 Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg Grabar, and Sheila Blair. The art and architecture of Islam, 650-1250. 1987. page number: p. 162, fig. 141 url: Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. page number: Reproduced: P. 177, fig. 5.8; Mentioned: P. 177, 180 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.92/1951.92_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.92/1951.92_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.92/1951.92_full.tif