id: 164668 accession number: 2006.154 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.154 updated: 2022-01-04 17:38:14.615000 The Caporali Missal, 1469. Bartolommeo Caporali (Italian, c. 1420-1503), assisted by Giapeco Caporali (Italian, d. 1478). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; 400 folios; overall: 35 x 25 cm (13 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2006.154 title: The Caporali Missal title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1469 creation date earliest: 1469 creation date latest: 1469 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Perugia technique: Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; 400 folios department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Bartolommeo Caporali (Italian, c. 1420-1503) - miniatures by * Giapeco Caporali (Italian, d. 1478) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 35 x 25 cm (13 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 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). title: The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination opening date: 2013-02-17T00:00:00 The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-June 2, 2013). title: Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2018-12-05T05:00:00 Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 5, 2018-December 2, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * --- PROVENANCE [Dr. Jörn Günther, Antiquariat, London], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -2006 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 2006- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Bartolomeo Caporali and his brother Giapeco shared a house and a workshop in Perugia. digital description: wall description: Called a missal, this manuscript served as a liturgical service book used by the priest at the altar during Mass. According to a colophon, an inscription on folio 400, the missal was made for the Franciscan church of San Francesco in Montone, near Perugia in the region of Umbria, in 1469. It was illuminated by Bartolomeo and Giapeco Caporali, two artist brothers who collaborated on the page decorations. The missal is opened here to the volume’s masterpiece, a two-page deluxe opening to the Canon of the Mass with a Calvary scene. The Canon introduces the most solemn part of the Mass during which the priest elevates and consecrates the Eucharistic bread and wine. Saint Francis kneels at the foot of the cross, attesting to the missal’s Franciscan use and affiliation. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: 244, repr. p. 245, no. 92 url: 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: 278, Cat. 106 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009. page number: 259 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., Dilys Blum, Bartolomeo Caporali, and Giacomo Caporali. The Caporali Missal: A Masterpiece of Renaissance Illumination. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. page number: 86-7, Cat. No. 1, Appendix A, pp 118-23 url: "Recent acquisitions (2005-11) at the Cleveland Museum of Art." The Burlington Magazine 1312:154 (July 2012) page number: p. 529, Fig. X url: De Marchi, Andrea, and Matteo Mazzalupi. L'Autunno del medioevo in umbria: cofani nuziali in gesso dorato e una bottega perugina dimenticata. 2019. page number: Reproduced and mentioned; p. 51, Fig 45 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.154/2006.154_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.154/2006.154_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.154/2006.154_full.tif