id: 169762 accession number: 2011.70 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.70 updated: 2023-03-22 03:04:51.068000 Leaf from a Choir Psalter: Initial B with King David in Prayer, c. 1460–1470. Maestro del Messale Barbo (Italian). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 54 x 37.5 cm (21 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.70 title: Leaf from a Choir Psalter: Initial B with King David in Prayer title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1460–1470 creation date earliest: 1455 creation date latest: 1475 current location: creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: Northern Italy, Lombardy and the Veneto, 15th century technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Maestro del Messale Barbo (Italian) - artist --- measurements: Leaf: 54 x 37.5 cm (21 1/4 x 14 3/4 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: 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. 77, illus. p. 79.
Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 7, 2015 - * Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 117): June 17, 2013 - January 14, 2014, --- PROVENANCE Collection d'ancienne Librairie Mam, Tours; [Sandra Hindman]; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Psalters contained all 150 biblical psalms. Specific pages within the psalter were decorated with historiated initials to highlight the liturgical divisions. In addition to providing embellishment, such initials served as a visual aid to the user to assist in locating a text. The most prominent of these was Psalm 1, which begins Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum (Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly), and which traditionally featured the grandest initial of all. An enlarged B was customarily filled with a scene representing King David, the author of the Psalms. Here David kneels in prayer within a bright green landscape of craggy rocks and trees. Above, God the Father, with orb in hand, looks down from heaven as he blesses David with his right hand. The author of the initial is named after a missal he illuminated for Marco Barbo, Bishop of Treviso, from 1455 to 1464 (now in Padua). He worked mainly in Lombardy and the Veneto during the 1450s and 1460s, and manuscripts illuminated by him are known to have been destined for patrons in Brescia and Padua. --- 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. 79, cat. no. 77 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n91 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.70/2011.70_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.70/2011.70_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.70/2011.70_full.tif