id:			135909
accession number:	1959.41
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.41
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:47.153000

Bloodstone Cameo with Saint George, 1000–1100. Byzantium, Contantinople, Byzantine period, 11th century. Bloodstone; overall: 3.2 x 2.8 x 1.4 cm (1 1/4 x 1 1/8 x 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1959.41

title:				Bloodstone Cameo with Saint George
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creation date:			1000–1100
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1100
current location:		105 Byzantine
creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Byzantium, Contantinople, Byzantine period, 11th century
technique:	bloodstone
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Glyptic
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 3.2 x 2.8 x 1.4 cm (1 1/4 x 1 1/8 x 9/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Greek inscription on either side of the head.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2007-05-10T00:00:00
	<i>Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Medieval Art from Private Collections: A Special Exhibition at The Cloisters, </em>New York, NY (October 30, 1968-January 5, 1969).', 'opening_date': '1968-10-30T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Ducal Museum, Gotha, Germany
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	(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: -1959
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1959-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Burgold, Karl "Das Herzogliche Museum," Mit einem Unhang: Die herzoglischen Unstalten für Kunst und Wissenschaft seit 1934 (Gotha, 1937).
	page number: 	tafel 53.
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	<em> Art Quarterly</em> (Summer 1959).
	page number: 	p. 178.
	url:		

	“Appointment.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 46, no. 4 (1959).
	page number: 	p. 63
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142337

	"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: January - March, 1959." <em>The Art Quarterly </em>XXII, no. 2 (Summer 1959): 177-188.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P.178
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	Wentzel, Hans "Die byzantinischen Kameen in Kassel, Zur Problematik der Datierung byzantinscher Kameen" Mousseion, Studien aus Kunst un Geschichte für Otto H. Förster (Köln: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1960.)
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 40
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n64

	Cloisters (Museum), and Carmen Gómez-Moreno. <em>Medieval Art from Private Collections: A Special Exhibition at The Cloisters, October 30, 1968 Through January 5, 1969.</em> 1968.
	page number: 	p. 212
	url:		

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 40
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n62

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 42
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n62

	Klein, Holger A. <em>Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 78-79, no. 21
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	Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007.
	page number: 	p. 70, repr. p. 71, no. 19
	url:		

	Fliegel, Stephen N., and Stephen N. Fliegel. <em>A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages</em>. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012.
	page number: 	p 28, fig 21
	url:		

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