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"tombstone": "Saint Catherine, early 1970s. Christian Goller (German, 1943\u20132017), imitator of Matthias Gr\u00fcnewald (German, c. 1480\u20131528). Oil on panel; framed: 129.5 x 68.6 cm (51 x 27 in.); unframed: 121.9 x 58.4 cm (48 x 23 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art (Study Collection), 1974.71",
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"title": "Saint Catherine",
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"department": "Modern European Painting and Sculpture",
"collection": "Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960",
"type": "Painting",
"measurements": "Framed: 129.5 x 68.6 cm (51 x 27 in.); Unframed: 121.9 x 58.4 cm (48 x 23 in.)",
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"height": 1.219,
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{
"id": 302084,
"title": "Year in Review: 1974",
"description": "Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).",
"opening_date": "1975-03-11T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 188842,
"title": "Conserving the Past for the Future",
"description": "Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).",
"opening_date": "2001-03-04T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 441481,
"title": "Gallery One 2012",
"description": "Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2012-12-12T05:00:00"
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"did_you_know": "Goller artificially aged this painting and used a 1500s wooden panel as the support so it would appear centuries older than it is.",
"description": "This panel was formerly believed to be from a lost altarpiece by German artist Matthias Gr\u00fcnewald (c.1480\u20131528). Scientific analysis of the pigments revealed that it was painted in the 1900s by Christian Goller, an artist who specialized in works inspired by Medieval and Renaissance painters. Goller\u2019s use of traditional materials and techniques has led to the frequent misattribution of his artworks to various historical artists, including Gr\u00fcnewald, Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472\u20131533), and Albrecht D\u00fcrer (1471\u20131528). Goller often based his designs on surviving motifs by these artists; this Saint Catherine, for example, was derived from a drawing by Gr\u00fcnewald himself.",
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"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60472670"
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"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1974.71-st-catherine"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisition Press Release,\u201d September 17, 1974, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr2177"
},
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1974.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (1975).",
"page_number": "no. 48, p. 68",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580"
},
{
"citation": "Alsop, Joseph. The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena Wherever These Have Appeared. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 23",
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},
{
"citation": "Dwyer Modestini, Dianne, and Mario Modestini. Masterpieces: Based on a Manuscript by Mario Modestini. Fiesole (Firenze) : Cadmo, 2018.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 351-353; reproduced: p. 352",
"url": null
}
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:49.668000"
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