id: 130051 accession number: 1952.465 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.465 updated: 2024-04-06 11:32:45.028000 Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits, c. 1480. Hausbuch Master (German). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; original blind stamped leather binding; codex: 23.7 x 18.4 x 5.4 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/4 x 2 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1952.465 title: Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1480 creation date earliest: 1475 creation date latest: 1485 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, Middle Rhine, 15th century technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; original blind stamped leather binding department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hausbuch Master (German) - miniatures by --- measurements: Codex: 23.7 x 18.4 x 5.4 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/4 x 2 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination opening date: 1964-03-17T05:00:00 Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 17-April 19, 1964). title: The Scholar in Art opening date: 1968-04-19T04:00:00 The Scholar in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 19-28, 1968). title: Livelier Than Life: The Master of the Amsterdam Print Cabinet opening date: 1985-03-14T05:00:00 Livelier Than Life: The Master of the Amsterdam Print Cabinet. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (March 14-June 9, 1985); Städelsches Kunstinstitut im Städtischen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, Franfurt am Main, Germany (September 4-November 3, 1985). title: Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00 Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-February 2, 1992). title: The Medieval Housebook: The Real and the Ideal--A Fifteenth-Century View of Life opening date: 1999-05-17T00:00:00 The Medieval Housebook: The Real and the Ideal--A Fifteenth-Century View of Life. Frick Collection, New York, NY (organizer) (May 17-July 11, 1999). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). 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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011). title: Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500 opening date: 2021-10-15T04:00:00 Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 15, 2021-January 23, 2022) https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/imperial-splendor. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illuminations, The Cleveland Museum of Art, (March 17 - May 17, 1965); no.11.', 'opening_date': '1965-03-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Master of the Masterdam Print Cabinet, Rijksmusuem, Amsterdam, (March 14-June 9, 1985); cat. 119, p. 246, repr. p. 230.', 'opening_date': '1985-03-14T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Master of the Masterdam Print Cabinet, Stagelaches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, (September 3 - November 3, 1985); cat. 119, p. 246, repr. p. 230.', 'opening_date': '1985-09-03T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Heinrich Eisemann, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. Berlin: Deutscher Kunst, 1955. page number: Mentioned: p. 120, 105; Reproduced: pl. 286 url: William M. Milliken, "An Illuminated Manuscript by the Master of the Hausbuch" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (June 1953) page number: 121, 122, repr. 116 and 117 url: Art Digest. New York: Art Digest Inc, July 1953. page number: Reproduced: p. 14, pl. 3 url: The Connoisseur. London: National Magazine Co., December 1953. page number: 211 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. 192 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n45 Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. 1958. page number: url: William D. Wixom, "Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LI, no. 3 (March 1964) page number: p. 58-60, no. 11 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Merald Ernest Wrolstad. Selected Works. 1966. page number: no. 108 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. 68 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n92 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. 68 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n92 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. 77 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n97 Filedt Kok, J. P. Livelier Than Life: The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet or the Master of the Housebook, Ca. 1470-1500. Amsterdam: Rijksprentenkabinet in association with Gary Schwartz, 1985. page number: p. 246, no. 119, pl. 6 url: Rijksmuseum (Netherlands), and Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main. Vom Leben im späten Mittelalter: der Hausbuchmeister oder Meister des Amsterdamer Kabinetts : Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 14. März-9. Juni 1985 ; Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, 5. September-3. November 1985. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1985. page number: Mentioned: p. 222, cat. no. 119; Reproduced: p. 223 url: Hindman, Sandra. The Robert Lehman Collection: IV. illuminations. New York [NY]: Metropolitan Museum of Art [etc.], 1997. page number: 19, fig. 2.6 url: Husband, Timothy. The Medieval Housebook & the Art of Illustration. New York: Frick Collection, 1999. page number: Mentioned: p. 266; Reproduced: p. 267, no. 100 url: 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: cat. no. 94, p. 250 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009. page number: 80, fig. 67 url: Pelgen, Franz L., and Nikolaus Nievergalt. Nikolaus Nievergalt aus Speyer und seine spätgotischen Altartafeln. Speyer : Pilgerverlag GmbH, 2021. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 182-186, abb 160-163 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.465/1952.465_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.465/1952.465_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.465/1952.465_full.tif