id:			149363
accession number:	1978.26
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.26
updated:		2023-12-07 17:19:55.807000

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
	<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. 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
	<i>Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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
	<i>Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe</i>. 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
	<i>Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350</i>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 7, 2024-January 26, 2025).

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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.<br>CMA 1979, Year in Review 1978, Bulletin. (Jan. 1979) 12, 42, cat. no.24.<br>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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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein<em>. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 264-265, no. 99
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	Bagnoli, Martina. <em>Treasures of heaven: saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 117, p. 202 - 203
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	Migdal, Anna Maria. <em>Regina Cœli: les images mariales et le culte des reliques : entre Orient et Occident au Moyen Âge</em>. 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." <em>Viator</em>. 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. <em>Fra Angelico: Heaven on </em>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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