id:			151523
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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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
	<i>Devotion and Leaning in the Middle Ages- (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Images of the Mind. </em>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," <em>Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes </em>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.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 70, no. 10 (1983).
	page number: 	pp. 396–417
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159839

	Sotheby Parke Bernet &amp; Co. <em>Single Leaves and Miniatures from Western Illuminated Manuscripts</em>. 1983.
	page number: 	Lot 60, p. 36
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	Morgan, Neil, "The Burckhardt-Wildt Apocalypse," in Ayers, Tim. <em>Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's, 1982-83 : Two Hundred and Forty-Nineth Season</em>. Totowa, N.J.: Sotheby Publications, 1983.
	page number: 	pp. 162-169
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	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. 180-185, no. 65
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