id: 130364 accession number: 1953.129 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.129 updated: 2024-05-21 11:11:35.696000 Embroidered Tondo from an Altar Frontal: The Coronation of the Virgin, 1459. Italy, Florence. Embroidery with gold, silver, and silk thread; split, satin, and couching stitches, or nué (shaded gold); overall: 57.8 x 57.8 cm (22 3/4 x 22 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.129 title: Embroidered Tondo from an Altar Frontal: The Coronation of the Virgin title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1459 creation date earliest: 1459 creation date latest: 1459 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Florence technique: Embroidery with gold, silver, and silk thread; split, satin, and couching stitches, or nué (shaded gold) department: Textiles collection: T - Ecclesiastical type: Embroidery find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 57.8 x 57.8 cm (22 3/4 x 22 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: the embroidery is backed by an old reused parchment with Latin writing over which in Italian is penned an inscription: "This pallioto was embroidered in the year 1486 by the venerable Margherita del Caccia nun of this monastery. . ." [It is difficult to know to what extent one should rely on this inscription as the style and technique both point clearly to an earlier date.] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400 opening date: 1962-10-23T04:00:00 The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (October 23-December 2, 1962). title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). title: Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages opening date: 1985-01-22T05:00:00 Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985). title: Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection opening date: 1989-02-14T05:00:00 Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 14-June 11, 1989). title: Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church opening date: 2003-09-07T00:00:00 Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2003-September 26, 2004). title: Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2012-11-14T05:00:00 Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2012-December 10, 2013). title: Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2018-12-05T05:00:00 Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 5, 2018-December 2, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (1930).', 'opening_date': '1930-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Kleinkunst der italienischen Frührenaissance, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria (1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Types of Musical Instruments, The University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (Fall 1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1958-11-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The International Style, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD (October 23-December 30, 1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-10-23T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Gallery 216 Installation, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 1991).', 'opening_date': '1991-06-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Erich Lederer, Geneva, Switzerland, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art). date: -1953 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1953- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain). Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1930. page number: p. 433, no. 952 url: Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Fifteenth-Century Florentine Embroidery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 10 (1954): 211-13. page number: p. 211-213 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141997 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. 223 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n50 Detroit Institute of Arts, and Paul L. Grigaut. Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600; The Detroit Institute of Arts [Exhibition] November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959. 1958. page number: no. 181, p. 80, 86 url: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.). The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400; [Exhibition]: October 23-December 2, 1962, / B. [Baltimore, Md.]: Walters Art Gallery, 1962. page number: p. 150-1, no. 159, pl. CXXIV url: "Gothic Art 1360-1440." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963): 174-215. page number: p. 215, no. 104 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25151960. 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. 61 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n85 Degenhart, Bernhard, Annegrit Schmitt, Hans-Joachim Eberhardt, and Susanne Wagini. Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450. 1968. page number: fig. 565a, p. 422 url: 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. 61 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n85 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. 68 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n88 Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. page number: p. 20-21, 29, 58 url: Sframeli, Maria. “‘Ricamato Da Mano Angelica’ : Un' Attribuzione Settecentesca Per L'incoronazione Della Vergine Di Paolo Schiavo.” Arte Cristiana / a Cura Della Scuola Beato Angelico E Dell'istituto Di Storia Dell'arte Dell'università Cattolica, Associata Al Centro D'azione Liturgica E All'unione Della Stampa Periodica Italiana N.s. 83.1995, (1995). page number: p. 323-331 url: "Current Exhibitions" Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 43 no. 10, December 2003 page number: Reproduced: p. 2 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-10/page/n1 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.129/1953.129_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.129/1953.129_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.129/1953.129_full.tif