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"tombstone": "Celestial banquet hanging, from the tomb of Bishop Gurb, 1200\u20131284. Spain, probably Almeria. Silk and gold thread: plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave; overall: 21.2 x 58.4 cm (8 3/8 x 23 in.); mounted: 30.2 x 67 cm (11 7/8 x 26 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1966.368",
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"title": "Celestial banquet hanging, from the tomb of Bishop Gurb",
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"inscription": "Arabic inscription bordering the roundels translates: \"There is no god but God.\"",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1967",
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"title": "Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries",
"description": "Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).",
"opening_date": "1991-11-26T05:00:00"
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"id": 437365,
"title": "Islamic Gallery 207 Rotation",
"description": "Islamic Gallery 207 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 19, 2001-June 3, 2002).",
"opening_date": "2001-06-19T04:00:00"
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"id": 342622,
"title": "Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)",
"description": "Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020).",
"opening_date": "2019-10-29T04:00:00"
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"description": "reportedly from tomb of Don Arnaldo de Gurb, Bishop of Barcelona [d. 1284], Montaner-Capmany, Barcelona, Spain",
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"description": "(Arturo Ramon Garriga, Barcelona, Spain, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "?\u20131966",
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"description": "This rare silk fragment is from a luxurious hanging of brightly colored silk and shiny gold thread that displayed rows of figural roundels on a plain ground. The two turbaned men holding flasks flanking a palmette tree and the turbaned rider with a flying scarf are derived from the ancient Near Eastern imperial themes of the banquet and the hunt. The Arabic inscription framing each roundel proclaims, There is no god but Allah.
This piece along with several others were reportedly found in the tomb of Bishop Gurb (died 1284) in the Cathedral of Barcelona in about 1890.",
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"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. \u201cA Treasure from a Thirteenth-Century Spanish Tomb.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 4 (April 1978): 111\u2013134.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 111\u2013134",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25159577"
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"citation": "Brett, Michael, and Werner Forman. The Moors: Islam in the West. London: Orbis Pub, 1980.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 15",
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"citation": "Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 35\u201337, 58, cat no. 12; fig. 23, 25.",
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"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P.189, fig. 5.22; Mentioned: P. 189, 198",
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"citation": "Akin, Esra. Muthanna / History, Theory, and Aesthetics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.",
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