id: 140413 accession number: 1964.357 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.357 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:17.748000 Altarpiece with Relics, c. 1735–40. Joseph Matthias Götz (German, 1696–1760), and Workshop. Gilded wood, with relics in niches: gilded wood, mother-of-pearl, ebony, red silk, gold wire, seed pearls, rock crystal, pen and ink on paper; overall: 165.1 x 108 x 20 cm (65 x 42 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1964.357 title: Altarpiece with Relics title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1735–40 creation date earliest: 1735 creation date latest: 1740 current location: 214 Central and Northern European creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, Bavaria, 18th century technique: gilded wood, with relics in niches: gilded wood, mother-of-pearl, ebony, red silk, gold wire, seed pearls, rock crystal, pen and ink on paper department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Joseph Matthias Götz (German, 1696–1760) - artist * Workshop - artist --- measurements: Overall: 165.1 x 108 x 20 cm (65 x 42 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions opening date: 1966-09-10T04:00:00 Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Private collection, Styria, Austria date: footnotes: citations: Dr. Kurt Rossacher (1918-1988), Salzburg, Austria, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1964 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1964- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Götz covers every surface in gold leaf, giving each part of the object equal importance, rather than simply framing a central picture. In this distinctively Central European approach, figural narrative is subordinate to the overall ensemble. Götz designed this object to rest on top of an altar, probably in front of a larger painted or sculpted decorative scheme. The work contains relics seen through the small windows on the perimeter. These small remains of holy figures demonstrate the persistence of a medieval Catholic tradition well into the 1700s. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 149 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n173 Hawley, Henry. "An Austrian Alterpiece." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LIII, no. 12 (December, 1966): 361-366. page number: Reproduced: p. 360,362, front and back covers url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152126 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Golden Anniversary Acquisition,” 1966, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr1426 "Art - The Cleveland's Golden Show," Newsweek (September 12, 1966). page number: p. 102 url: Lee, Sherman E. "Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 7 (1966): 181-284. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 7. Reproduced: p. 221 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152110. Wolfgang Stechow, "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." ARTnews (September 1966): 30-64. page number: Mentioned: p. 44; reproduced: p. 38 url: Burton, Richard. “Fifty Years of the Cleveland, Some Golden Anniversary Acquisitions.” Connoisseur 163 (October 1966): 128–35. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 132-133 url: “‘Golden Anniversary’ Acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Burlington Magazine 108, no. 764 (November 1966): 573–577. page number: Reproduced: p. 579, fig. 53 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Reproduced: no. 176 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. 149 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n173 Möller, Lise, and Christian Theuerkauff. "Süddeutschland, Passau oder Oberösterreich, Um 1730, Hausaltar." In Die Bildwerke des 18. Jahrhunderts. Christian Theuerkauff, and Lise Lotte Möller, 3eds., 36-39. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1977. page number: Mentioned: p. 38 url: 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. 165 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n185 Diemer, Claudia. Georg Raphael Donner: die Reliefs : Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Ruprecht-Karl-Universität zu Heidelberg. Nürnberg, Germany: [publisher not identified], 1979. page number: Reproduced: p. 192; Mentioned: p. 282-283 url: Baum, Elfriede. Katalog des Österreichischen Barockmuseums im Unteren Belvedere in Wien. Vienna, Austria: Herold, 1980. page number: Reproduced: p. 103 url: Heisig, Alexander. Joseph Matthias Götz: (1696-1760) : Barockskulptur in Bayern und Österreich. Regensburg, Germany: Schnell + Steiner, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 348-349 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 191 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.357/1964.357_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.357/1964.357_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.357/1964.357_full.tif