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"tombstone": "Portrait of a Man, c. 1480\u20131500. Northeastern France or the Burgundian Netherlands, 15th century. Oil on wood; framed: 52.5 x 38 x 5 cm (20 11/16 x 14 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.); unframed: 42.5 x 27.6 cm (16 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1963.503",
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"title": "Portrait of a Man",
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"department": "Medieval Art",
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"measurements": "Framed: 52.5 x 38 x 5 cm (20 11/16 x 14 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 42.5 x 27.6 cm (16 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.)",
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{
"id": 304258,
"title": "Year in Review (1963)",
"description": "Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).",
"opening_date": "1963-11-27T05:00:00"
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"id": 300926,
"title": "Treasures of Medieval France",
"description": "Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967).",
"opening_date": "1966-11-16T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 309658,
"title": "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual",
"description": "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).",
"opening_date": "1983-11-22T05:00:00"
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"description": "Frederick Mont, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"did_you_know": "The man pictured here didn't accidentally rip his coat, he is actually sporting highly fashionable slashed sleeves. Decorative openings in the sleeves of garments, revealing the rich fabric underneath, were all the rage in 15th-century society.",
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"description": "Although the subject of this portrait wears rich clothing and a sword, nothing specifically associates him with aristocracy. Instead he may have been a wealthy member of the middle class. During the 1400s, portraiture became increasingly popular with prosperous merchants and tradesmen who imitated the portraits commissioned by the dukes of Burgundy and members of their court. The artist is equally mysterious and unidentified. The highly refined technique of oil painting suggests a familiarity with Netherlandish art, and the dark palette and clothing allude to Burgundian portraiture. However, the clothing and facial type relate more to French traditions. The artist may have hailed from France or the Low Countries, a region with a long artistic association with the Valois dukes of Burgundy who ruled the Netherlands in the late 1300s and 1400s.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cYear in Review for 1963.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 10 (1963).",
"page_number": "cat. no. 106, p. 261",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151974"
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"citation": "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. 73",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n97"
},
{
"citation": "Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.",
"page_number": "no. vii 21, p. 334-5",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n361"
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"citation": "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. 73",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n97"
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 6, p. 16 -17",
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},
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"citation": "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. 82",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n102"
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