id:			148071
accession number:	1975.105
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.105
updated:		2023-08-23 22:29:59.274000

Tabernacle Relief with Flanking Angels, c. 1480–1500. Circle of Tullio Lombardo (Italian, c. 1455–1532). Polychromed marble; overall: 81.3 x 108.6 cm (32 x 42 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1975.105

title:				Tabernacle Relief with Flanking Angels
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creation date:			c. 1480–1500
creation date earliest:		1475
creation date latest:		1505
current location:		117B Italian Renaissance
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Italy, Venice, late 15th Century
technique:	polychromed marble
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Tullio Lombardo (Italian, c. 1455–1532)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 81.3 x 108.6 cm (32 x 42 3/4 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	pilasters painted with muscial instruments, scores, urns, and inscription:  LAVS DEO; inscription on entablature:  LOCHVS SACTVS.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Heinrich Miller con Aicholz (Vienna, Austria), by forced sale to the City of Vienna, 1938
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	1938-1945  City of Vienna, occupied after World War II by the French government
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	1945 -   French government
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	Camillo Castiglioni, 1959-1957 (Vienna, Austria)
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	Jacques Seligmann and Co., sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.
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wall description:
This relief once framed a tabernacle—a receptacle above and behind an altar for the safekeeping of the Eucharist. The inscription over the doorway, LOCHVS SANCTVS (Holy Place), and below, LAVS DEO (Praise God), confirm the relief’s intended purpose. Originally, a door at center, perhaps in gilt bronze, would have secured the tabernacle. The pose, costumes, and modeling of the flanking angels all suggest the hand of a gifted artist probably working under the influence of Tullio Lombardo, a brilliant Venetian marble sculptor.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 103
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n123

	Motture, Peta,Will Webb and Rebeka Cohen. T<em>he Culture of Bronze: Making and Meaning in Italian Renaissance Sculpture</em>. London: V&amp;A Publishing,  2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 180
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IMAGES

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