id: 149363 accession number: 1978.26 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.26 updated: 2020-11-04 21:19:04.167000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: Italy, Siena, 14th century 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). --- 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" --- PROVENANCE (Blumka Gallery, New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: page number: 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: --- 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