id: 149465 accession number: 1979.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.1 updated: 2023-08-23 22:37:23.453000 Embroidered Panel: Holy Kinship, 1500s. Germany or Switzerland, 16th century. Embroidery: silk and linen on linen ground; contours of design applied with ink; overall: 147.3 x 152.4 cm (58 x 60 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1979.1 title: Embroidered Panel: Holy Kinship title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1500s creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1599 current location: 115 Manuscripts & Textiles creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany or Switzerland, 16th century technique: embroidery: silk and linen on linen ground; contours of design applied with ink department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Embroidery find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 147.3 x 152.4 cm (58 x 60 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1979 opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). 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: Visions of the Divine: Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval Germany (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2016-12-14T05:00:00 Visions of the Divine: Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval Germany (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 14, 2016-December 4, 2017). title: Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany (Gallery 115 Rotation) opening date: 2023-08-11T04:00:00 Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany (Gallery 115 Rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 11, 2023-August 4, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Bacri Collection, Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: (Loewi - Robertson, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1979 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1979– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In the late Middle Ages, the life of Jesus was increasingly embellished by other figures and stories. Part of this is the theme of the holy kinship, represented in the central medallion. It was based on an apocryphal account (unsanctioned by certain canons) of the three marriages of Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin. The central theme is accompanied by the main authorities of the Catholic Church, the Evangelists, and the Church fathers.
The monumentality of the design, the dignity and spontaneity of the figures, and the fine execution of the embroidery itself distinguishes this as one of the finest examples of Swiss or South German linen embroidery of the 1500s. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. "Recent Major Acquisitions of Medieval Art by American Museums." Gesta 19, no. 1 (1980): 67-77. page number: p. 77, fig. 30-31 url: doi:10.2307/766817. Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 13, p. 65; Mentioned: p. 60 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667 Wardwell, Anne E. "The Holy Kinship: A Sixteen-Century Immaculist Embroidery." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 9 (1980).. page number: p. 285-95 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159697. --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.1/1979.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.1/1979.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.1/1979.1_full.tif