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accession number: 1959.41
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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
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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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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
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Medieval Art from Private Collections: A Special Exhibition at The Cloisters, 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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Art Quarterly (Summer 1959).
page number: p. 178.
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“Appointment.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 4 (1959).
page number: p. 63
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142337
"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: January - March, 1959." The Art Quarterly 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. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. 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. Medieval Art from Private Collections: A Special Exhibition at The Cloisters, October 30, 1968 Through January 5, 1969. 1968.
page number: p. 212
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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. 40
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n62
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. 42
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n62
Klein, Holger A. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 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
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Fliegel, Stephen N., and Stephen N. Fliegel. A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012.
page number: p 28, fig 21
url:
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