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"title": "The Medieval Housebook: The Real and the Ideal--A Fifteenth-Century View of Life",
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"title": "The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection",
"description": "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).",
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"id": 376079,
"title": "Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500",
"description": "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.",
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"description": "Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illuminations, The Cleveland Museum of Art, (March 17 - May 17, 1965); no.11.",
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"description": "The Master of the Masterdam Print Cabinet, Rijksmusuem, Amsterdam, (March 14-June 9, 1985); cat. 119, p. 246, repr. p. 230.",
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"description": "The Master of the Masterdam Print Cabinet, Stagelaches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, (September 3 - November 3, 1985); cat. 119, p. 246, repr. p. 230.",
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"description": "Heinrich Eisemann, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"did_you_know": "The Hausbuch Master, also a printmaker, is thought to be the first artist to use a form of engraving known as drypoint.",
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"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\u2014ink 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.",
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"citation": "The Connoisseur. London: National Magazine Co., December 1953.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n45"
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"citation": "Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. 1958.",
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"citation": "William D. Wixom, \"Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art LI, no. 3 (March 1964)",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Merald Ernest Wrolstad. Selected Works. 1966.",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009.",
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"citation": "Pelgen, Franz L., and Nikolaus Nievergalt. Nikolaus Nievergalt aus Speyer und seine spa\u0308tgotischen Altartafeln. Speyer : Pilgerverlag GmbH, 2021.",
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