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accession number: 1983.73.1
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Miniature from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse: The Woman upon the Scarlet Beast and The Fall of Babylon, c. 1295. France, Lorraine, 13th century. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 10.2 x 14.7 cm (4 x 5 13/16 in.); framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1983.73.1
title: Miniature from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse: The Woman upon the Scarlet Beast and The Fall of Babylon
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creation date: c. 1295
creation date earliest: 1290
creation date latest: 1300
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creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture: France, Lorraine, 13th century
technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type: Manuscript
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CREATORS
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measurements: Sheet: 10.2 x 14.7 cm (4 x 5 13/16 in.); Framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); Matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Devotion and Leaning in the Middle Ages- (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115
opening date: 2017-12-04T05:00:00
Devotion and Leaning in the Middle Ages- (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 7-August 23, 1987).
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PROVENANCE
Daniel Burkhardt-Wildt (1759-1819), Basel, passed to his descendants
date: -1819
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Sale: Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1983, lot 60
date: 25 April 1983
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1983-
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The visionary text of Saint John the Evangelist's Apocalypse, the final book of the New Testament, inspired these images of salvation, sin, and divine retribution. A large number of illustrated volumes of the Apocalypse appeared in Northern Europe, especially in England, after the year 1240, perhaps reflecting a fear of the world's end.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Freyham, R. "Joachism and the English Apocalypse," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes XVIII (1955).
page number: p. 244, note 2
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De Winter, Patrick M. “Visions of the Apocalypse in Medieval England and France.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 10 (1983).
page number: pp. 396–417
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159839
Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. Single Leaves and Miniatures from Western Illuminated Manuscripts. 1983.
page number: Lot 60, p. 36
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Morgan, Neil, "The Burckhardt-Wildt Apocalypse," in Ayers, Tim. Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's, 1982-83 : Two Hundred and Forty-Nineth Season. Totowa, N.J.: Sotheby Publications, 1983.
page number: pp. 162-169
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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. 180-185, no. 65
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