id: 130046 accession number: 1952.461 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.461 updated: 2019-06-05 08:50:09.910000 The Trinity: Leaf from a Gradual with Initial B, c. 1496-1502. Circle of Perugino (Italian, c1450/55-1523). Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment; sheet: 78.7 x 53 cm (31 x 20 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1952.461 title: The Trinity: Leaf from a Gradual with Initial B title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1496-1502 creation date earliest: 1496 creation date latest: 1502 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Perugia, 15th century technique: ink, tempera, and gold on parchment department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Perugino (Italian, c1450/55-1523) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 78.7 x 53 cm (31 x 20 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art opening date: 1993-09-25T04:00:00 The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 19, 1993). title: The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection opening date: 2010-11-06T00:00:00 The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011). title: The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination opening date: 2013-02-17T00:00:00 The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-June 2, 2013). title: Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance- Gallery 115 Rotation – December 2015 opening date: 2015-12-14T05:00:00 Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance- Gallery 115 Rotation – December 2015. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 14, 2015-December 2, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Fliegel, Stephen N. The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination" held 17 Feb to 2 June 2013 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, imprint of Prestel Publishing, 2013. Cat 5, pg 92-3.

Cleveland Museum of Art, (11/06/2010 - 04/17/2011); "The Glory Of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collections"
The Cleveland Museum of Art (02/17/2013 - 06/02/2013): "Caporali"
Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 7, 2015 - --- PROVENANCE Cathedral of Perugia (?) date: footnotes: citations: Cathedral of Perugia (?); [Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, New York] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The focus of this lavishly illuminated page is a large initial B containing a representation of the Holy Trinity (three persons in one godhead). The text, Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas, introduces the opening of the Introit for Mass on Trinity Sunday, celebrated one week after Pentecost. An illusion has been created by the artist who painted the framing initial to appear three-dimensional. Beyond the initial a landscape recedes as if viewed through an open window. The decoration extends into all four margins that are filled with small miniatures depicting saints (one was left blank). This page is a masterful example of Renaissance manuscript painting with classicizing leaf scrolls, masks, urns, putti, and other decorative motifs fashionable in Italy at the close of the 15th century. It may come from a set of choir books illuminated for Perugia Cathedral. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.461/1952.461_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.461/1952.461_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.461/1952.461_full.tif