id: 141650 accession number: 1965.240 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.240 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:13.442000 Jonah Praying, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 47.5 x 14.8 x 20.3 cm (18 11/16 x 5 13/16 x 8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.240 title: Jonah Praying title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 280–90 CE creation date earliest: 280 creation date latest: 290 current location: 104 Late Antiquity creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian technique: marble department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Early Christian type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 47.5 x 14.8 x 20.3 cm (18 11/16 x 5 13/16 x 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). title: Early Christian and Byzantine Art in Honor of Professor Ernst Kitzinger opening date: 1979-03-17T05:00:00 Early Christian and Byzantine Art in Honor of Professor Ernst Kitzinger. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (March 17-April 22, 1979). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"', 'opening_date': '2007-05-10T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE according to William Wixom, an unconfirmed report tells us that the entire group (1965.237-1965.247) was found in a single, huge pithos or jar. (J. J. Klejman, New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 141651 The Good Shepherd, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, Late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 49.5 x 26 x 16.2 cm (19 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.241 relationship: id: 141645 Jonah Under the Gourd Vine, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 32.3 x 46.3 x 18 cm (12 11/16 x 18 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.239 relationship: id: 141644 Jonah Cast Up, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 41.5 x 36 x 18.5 cm (16 5/16 x 14 3/16 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.238 relationship: id: 141643 Jonah Swallowed, 280–90 CE. Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian. Marble; overall: 50.4 x 15.5 x 26.9 cm (19 13/16 x 6 1/8 x 10 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.237 relationship: --- CITATIONS Wixom, William. "Early Christian Sculptures at Cleveland." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 3 (1967): 67-88. page number: Reproduced: P. 81 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152146. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Margaret English Frazer, and Kurt Weitzmann. Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art Third to Seventh Century. New York: The Museum, 1977. page number: 407-411 url: Kitzinger, Ernst. 1978. "The Cleveland Marbles". I Monumenti Cristiani Preconstantiniani. 653-675. page number: url: McColl, Donald Alexander. Early Christian Sculptures at Cleveland in Their Eastern Mediterranean Context. Dissertation: Oberlin College 1991. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 14 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n29 Lehman, Karen M. "Sacred and Profane Hellenizing Marbles of the Late Third Century Roman Empire: Secular Portraits and Religious Narrative Sculptures in the Cleveland Museum of Art Reviewed in the Cultural Context." M.A. thesis, Kent State University, 2004. page number: Mentioned: p. v; Reproduced: p. 109, fig. 26 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. 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. 34-37, no. 1 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. 261 url: Hornik, Heidi J. "Freestanding Sculpture." In The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art.Jensen, Robin Margaret Jensen and Mark D. Ellison, editors. Abingdon Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018 page number: Reproduced: p. 74, fig. 5.2 url: Rumscheid, Frank, Sabine Schrenk and Kornelia Kressirer. Göttliche Ungerechtigkeit?: Strafen und Glaubensprüfungen als Themen antiker und frühchristlicher Kunst. Petersberg: Dr. M. Imhof, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 304; IV.2.3 Abb. 12-14 url: Bol, Peter, Carola Reinsberg, Renate Bol, D. Kreikenbom, Hans-Ulrich Cain, Heike Richter, and Britta Özen-Kleine. Plastik der römischen Kaiserzeit vom Regierungsantritt des Antoninus Pius bis zum Ende der Antike. Worms : Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, 2019. page number: Mentioned: p. 189, 191, 193, 195; Reproduced: Abb. 182a-b (bd.2) url: Jensen, Robin Margaret. From Idols to Icons: The Rise of the Devotional Image in Early Christianity. Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2022. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 82-83, fig. 4.5 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.240/1965.240_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.240/1965.240_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.240/1965.240_full.tif