id:			147579
accession number:	1973.77
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.77
updated:		2024-04-24 17:15:55.444000

The Mystical Grapes, c. 1500. Flanders, possibly Bruges. Wool, silk, silver thread; tapestry weave; overall: 79 x 75.9 cm (31 1/8 x 29 7/8 in.); framed: 102.2 x 99.7 cm (40 1/4 x 39 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1973.77

title:				The Mystical Grapes
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creation date:			c. 1500
creation date earliest:		1495
creation date latest:		1505
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Flanders, possibly Bruges
technique:	Wool, silk, silver thread; tapestry weave
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Tapestry
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measurements: Overall: 79 x 75.9 cm (31 1/8 x 29 7/8 in.); Framed: 102.2 x 99.7 cm (40 1/4 x 39 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages
	opening date:   1985-01-22T05:00:00
	<i>Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985).

	title:		Only for Beauty? (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115
	opening date:   2014-12-08T05:00:00
	<i>Only for Beauty? (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 2014-December 7, 2015).

	title:		Art of Embroidery in Late Medieval Europe (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115
	opening date:   2020-12-19T05:00:00
	<i>Art of Embroidery in Late Medieval Europe (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 2020-April 11, 2021).

	title:		The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
	opening date:   2023-02-26T05:00:00
	<i>The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (February 26-May 14, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Spitzer Collection; Economas Collection; Mortimer Schiff Collection; (Spencer A. Samuels & Co., Ltd.)
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CITATIONS

	Wardwell, Anne E. "The Mystical Grapes, a Devotional Tapestry." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 62, no. 1 (1975): 17-23.
	page number: 	p. 17-23
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25152571.

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 81
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n101

	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: 	p. 28, 30-31, 58
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	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Adolph S. Cavallo. Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.
	page number: 	p. 337, fig. 337
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	Cleland, Elizabeth. "Small-Scale Devotional Tapestries—Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, Part 2: The “Mystic Grapes Group”." <em>Studies in the Decorative Arts</em> 16, no. 2 (2009): 141-64.
	page number: 	p. 141-64
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/652508

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IMAGES

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