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"title": "The Year in Review for 1987",
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"title": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "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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"title": "The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection",
"description": "The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011).",
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"description": "Daniel Burckhardt-Wildt (1715-1819), Basel, Switzerland, by descent to his heirs",
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"description": "(Sale: Sotheby's, London, 4/25/1983, lot 129d)",
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"description": "This miniature came from a sumptuous copy of the Speculum Historiale (Mirror of History) written by 13th-century Dominican friar Vincent de Beauvais. It covers a history of the world from creation through to De Beauvais\u2019s own time. Here a seated Claudius, emperor of Rome (AD 41\u201354), is appointing a kneeling Nero, his grand-nephew and adopted stepson, to be his successor. Although an event from antiquity, contemporary dress and setting was used and would have been familiar to the reader. The original work remained much in demand and numerous copies were produced after De Beauvais\u2019s lifetime. This miniature belonged to a deluxe copy made for Ren\u00e9 d\u2019Anjou (1409\u20131480), king of Jerusalem and a major patron of art and books.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"The Year in Review for 1987.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (1988).",
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"citation": "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": "cat. 81, p.220",
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},
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"citation": "Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. Mu\u0308nchen: Hirmer, 2007.",
"page_number": "p. 216-17, no. 81",
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