id: 130051 accession number: 1952.465 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.465 updated: 2023-08-24 11:35:25.537000 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 * Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illuminations, The Cleveland Museum of Art, (March 17 - May 17, 1965); no.11. * The Master of the Masterdam Print Cabinet, Rijksmusuem, Amsterdam, (March 14-June 9, 1985); cat. 119, p. 246, repr. p. 230. * The Master of the Masterdam Print Cabinet, Stagelaches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, (September 3 - November 3, 1985); cat. 119, p. 246, repr. p. 230. --- 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: The Hausbuch Master, also a printmaker, is thought to be the first artist to use a form of engraving known as drypoint. digital description: wall description: The four gospels are preceded by a full-page portrait miniature of the appropriate evangelist. Per tradition, they are represented as contemporary scribes surrounded by all the tools of their trade—ink pots, quill pens, and penknives. The anonymous illuminator of these miniatures, called the Hausbuch Master, is known primarily for an album of lively drawings as well as some 90 copper engravings now in Amsterdam. He was also apparently a panel painter of some distinction. The skillful pen work, tracery, and vine scrolls, as well as the large initials, are the work of other artists. The binding is original. --- 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