id: 149383
accession number: 1978.40
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Plaque: The Journey to Bethlehem, c. 1100–1120. South Italy, Amalfi, Romanesque period, 12th century. Ivory; overall: 16.3 x 11 x 1 cm (6 7/16 x 4 5/16 x 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1978.40
title: Plaque: The Journey to Bethlehem
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creation date: c. 1100–1120
creation date earliest: 1100
creation date latest: 1120
current location: 106C Medieval Treasury
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture: South Italy, Amalfi, Romanesque period, 12th century
technique: ivory
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Romanesque
type: Ivory
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measurements: Overall: 16.3 x 11 x 1 cm (6 7/16 x 4 5/16 x 3/8 in.)
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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: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story
opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00
When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982).
title: The Glory of Byzantium
opening date: 1997-03-03T00:00:00
The Glory of Byzantium. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3-July 6, 1997).
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); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
The Robert von Hirsch Collection, Sotheby's, London, June 22, 1978, lot 277.
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Six Works from Von Hirsch Collection,” August 1, 1978, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr2569
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. 7; Mentioned: p. 42, no. 20
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 (March 1979): 86–151.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 86-87, fig. 1 and Cover
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159622
Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p.492
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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. 130-131, no. 42
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Pace, Valentino. Una Bibbia in avorio: arte mediterranea nella Salerno dell'XI secolo. Castel Bolognese: Itaca,2016.
page number: Reproduced: P. 27
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