id: 149363
accession number: 1978.26
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Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon, 1347. Italy, Siena, 14th century. Gilded wood, modeled gesso, verre églomisé, glass cabochons, and relics; overall: 66.7 x 51.3 x 25.3 cm (26 1/4 x 20 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka 1978.26
title: Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon
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creation date: 1347
creation date earliest: 1347
creation date latest: 1347
current location: 110A Italian Gothic
creditline: Gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka
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culture: Italy, Siena, 14th century
technique: gilded wood, modeled gesso, verre églomisé, glass cabochons, and relics
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Gothic
type: Glass
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measurements: Overall: 66.7 x 51.3 x 25.3 cm (26 1/4 x 20 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
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inscription: an inscription with a stipled background runs around the lowest edge of the upright part of the frame: obverse: HOC/OPUS : FACTUM . FUIT . SUB . ANNO . DO/MINI; reverse: [small loss] /CCC . XLVII . TEMPORE . DOMINI . MINI/CINI. [This/work : has . been . made . under . year . of . the . Lord [small loss] /300 47 . in . the . time . of the Lord . Mini/Cini.] Another inscription appears on the obverse and reverse of the base: LUCAS ME FECIT. [Luke has made me.]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1978
opening date: 1979-02-13T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 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).
title: Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe
opening date: 2010-10-17T00:00:00
Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 17, 2010-January 17, 2011).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* CMA, October 17, 2010 - January 17, 2011, Walters Art Museum February 13 - May 15, 2011, British Museum June 23 - October 9, 2011: "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe," cat. no. 117.
CMA 1979, Year in Review 1978, Bulletin. (Jan. 1979) 12, 42, cat. no.24.
Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007) and the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"
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PROVENANCE
(Blumka Gallery, New York).
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In the Middle Ages relics were thought to possess extraordinary power and were enshrined in lavish vessels called reliquaries. This complex frame once contained a painted image on each side, believed to be the Madonna and the Crucifixion, both long since lost. These images were surrounded by 17 carefully labeled relics, still visible. Intentionally portable, such votive objects could be easily carried from room to room or building to building as needed. A Latin inscription around the base reads: This work has been made under the year of the Lord CCCXLVII [1347] in the time of the Lord Mini/Cini. The inscription likely refers to Mino Cinughi, rector of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, 1340-51. The Cinughi coat of arms as well as those of the hospital appear on the base. Another inscription, LUCAS ME FECIT (Luke made me), appears on both sides of the base. While this object probably resided on an altar in the hospital, the fact that it has two sides suggests it was carried aloft in processions.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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. 264-265, no. 99
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Bagnoli, Martina. Treasures of heaven: saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 117, p. 202 - 203
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Migdal, Anna Maria. Regina Cœli: les images mariales et le culte des reliques : entre Orient et Occident au Moyen Âge. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. p. 196, 252, 324.
page number: : p. 324, fig. 79 Mentioned: p. 196, 252Reproduced
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Zchomelidse, Nino. "Liminal Phenomena: Framing Medieval Cult Images with Relics and Words." Viator. 47, no. 3 (2016): 243-296.
page number: Reproduced p. 289, fig. 20; Mentioned p. 264
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Silver, Nathaniel E. and Alexa Beller. Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth. Boston; London: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Paul Holberton Publishing, 2018.
page number: Mentioned: p,. 43; Reproduced: p. 44
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Painting under glass" Accessed: 2021-02-13 21:25:42.
page number: M.56 & A-1904
url: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/28233
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