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"title": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.",
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"title": "Hans Baldung Grien",
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"title": "Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church",
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"title": "Hans Baldung Grien",
"description": "Hans Baldung Grien. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (organizer) (November 30, 2019-March 8, 2020) https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/en/exhibition/hans-baldung-grien-2/.",
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"did_you_know": "Saint Gregory was a 6th-century pope and one of the fathers of the early Roman church. The artist, Hans Baldung, chose to depict the historical legend of Gregory's vision in a scene reminiscent of his own time period, 900 years after this pope actually lived.",
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"description": "Saint Gregory was a late 6th-century pope and one of the fathers of the early Roman Church. This painting depicts the popular legend in which Gregory once overheard an onlooker express doubts about Christ\u2019s actual presence at the altar during mass. In response, the saint\u2019s immense faith was rewarded by a vision of Christ surrounded by the instruments and symbols of his passion. Saint Gregory, vested in his chasuble, kneels in the center, flanked by priests who share his amazement. This painting was part of an altarpiece commissioned by Erhard K\u00fcnig, a member of a charitable lay order for a monastery near Strassburg. K\u00fcnig stands at the far right wearing a Maltese cross. The two wings of the altar, showing respectively Saint John the Evangelist and Saint John the Baptist, are in New York and Washington. Hans Baldung was both a painter and a printmaker and is regarded as one of the most gifted students of Albrecht D\u00fcrer.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"'Mass of St. Gregory' by Hans Baldung Grien.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 7 (September 1952): 184-187.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 180-181; Mentioned: p. 184-187",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 461",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n84"
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"The Stag Hunt.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 9 (November 1959): 198-205.",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142361"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n134"
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"citation": "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. 88",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n108"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 160-162; Reproduced: p. 161",
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"citation": "Real, William A. \u201cExploring New Applications for Infrared Reflectography.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 8 (December 1985): 390\u2013412.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 402-403, figs. 13a-b, 14a-f",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159923"
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"citation": "B\u00e9, Kenneth. \"Conservation Treatment of the Pintoricchio Madonna and Child.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 8 (1991): 360-73.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 373, p. 364",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161340"
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"citation": "\"1992 Annual Report.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 238",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418"
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"citation": "Strickland, Debra Higgs. The Epiphany of Hieronymus Bosch: Imagining Antichrist and Others from the Middle Ages to the Reformation. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2016.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 152, 157, 185; Reproduced: p. 154, fig. 58",
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"citation": "Holger Jacob-Friesen. Hans Baldung Grien: Heilig, Unheilig. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2019.",
"page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 136-139, fig. 44",
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"citation": "Dal Pra\u0300, Laura, Marina Carmignani, and Paolo Peri. Fili d'oro e dipinti di seta: velluti e ricami tra Gotico e Rinascimento. 2019.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 147-148, fig. 96",
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"citation": "Pregla, Barbara, Anja Preiss, and Evemarie Schaper. Die Textilien im Domschatz zu Halberstadt: Bestandskatalog. [Riggisberg, Switzerland]: Abegg-Stiftung, 2025.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 353, n. 20, vol. 1; p. 175-176, n. 9, vol. 2",
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