id: 149363 accession number: 1978.26 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.26 updated: 2024-12-04 21:15:31.961000 Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon, 1347. Italy, Siena. 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1347 creation date earliest: 1347 creation date latest: 1347 current location: creditline: Gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka copyright: --- culture: Italy, Siena technique: gilded wood, modeled gesso, verre églomisé, glass cabochons, and relics department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Glass find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 66.7 x 51.3 x 25.3 cm (26 1/4 x 20 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: 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.] translation: remark: --- 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). title: Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 opening date: 2024-10-07T04:00:00 Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 7, 2024-January 26, 2025) https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/siena-the-rise-of-painting-1300-1350; National Gallery, London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (March 8-June 22, 2025). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': '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.', 'opening_date': '2011-02-13T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA 1979, Year in Review 1978, Bulletin. (Jan. 1979) 12, 42, cat. no.24.', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': '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"', 'opening_date': '2007-05-10T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Blumka Gallery, New York). date: –1978 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1978– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3–48. page number: Reproduced: p. 12; Mentioned: p. 42, no. 24 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613 Wixom, William D. “Eleven Additions to the Medieval Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 3 (Mar/Apr 1979): 87–151. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 128-132, figs. 83-85 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159622 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.26/1978.26_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.26/1978.26_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.26/1978.26_full.tif