id: 162537 accession number: 2003.173 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.173 updated: 2023-04-23 11:16:02.321000 Leaf from a Gradual: Initial P with the Nativity, c. 1500. Attavante degli Attavanti (Italian, c. 1452-c. 1525), Workshop. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; each leaf: 59.8 x 4.1 cm (23 9/16 x 1 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2003.173 title: Leaf from a Gradual: Initial P with the Nativity title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1505 current location: creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: Italy, Florence, late 15th, early 16th century technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Attavante degli Attavanti (Italian, c. 1452-c. 1525) - artist * Workshop - artist --- measurements: Each leaf: 59.8 x 4.1 cm (23 9/16 x 1 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations opening date: 1999-12-19T00:00:00 The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000). title: Illuminated Manuscripts opening date: 2004-10-10T00:00:00 Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005). title: The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection opening date: 2010-11-06T00:00:00 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). title: Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2015-12-10T05:00:00 Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 10, 2015-December 12, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 80, illus. p. 82.
Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 7, 2015 - * The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/10/2004 - 10/02/2005); "Illuminated Manuscripts" * Cleveland Museum of Art, (11/06/2010 - 04/17/2011); "The Glory Of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collections" * Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 117): June 17, 2013 - January 14, 2014, --- PROVENANCE Alice Tully, New York; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This beautiful initial P introduces the text Puer natus e[st] nobis, et filius datus est nobis (“For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us”) which marks the opening of the Introit for Christmas Day. The text, taken from Isaiah 9:6, continues, “. . . and his name shall be called Wonderful.” It is used to celebrate one of the most joyous events of the Christian Church—the birth of Christ. This splendid leaf from a manuscript gradual contains the chants used for solemn high Mass on Christmas Day. The initial P features sprays of foliage that emerge and migrate along three sides of the page. Painted by Attavante degli Attavanti, one of the most prominent Florentine illuminators of the late 15th century—whose patrons included Duke Federigo da Montefeltro of Urbino, King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, and the Medici Pope Leo X—the initial is characteristic of Attavante’s use of a bright, sunny palette. His miniatures often include detailed landscapes with receding vistas and sundrenched hills, townscapes, and ultramarine skies. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 82, cat. no. 80 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n94 Alexander, J. J. G. The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450-1600. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. page number: Mention: p. 292, n. 100 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.173/2003.173_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.173/2003.173_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.173/2003.173_full.tif