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Christ in Majesty with the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist: Single Leaf from a Book of Rules

c. 1310–20

circle of Master of the Washington Coronation

(Italian, active c. 1300–30)

Italy, Venice, 14th century

Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment

Sheet: 27.3 x 20 cm (10 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.)

Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1959.128

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Description

In this complex image, the Virgin and St. John stand next to Christ at the Last Judgment as the final trumpets blow. Assembled below are members of the Confraternity of St. John the Evangelist in Venice, robed in white with the insignia of their order: a pastoral staff and crosses. This beautiful page comes from a mariegola, or the book of rules of this confraternity. During the late Middle Ages, every town had one or more confraternities, organizations of lay people who undertook to carry out the ideals of the Franciscans and Dominicans. Confraternities were created for the special veneration of a saint or the Holy Sacrament (the body and blood of Christ). One of their tasks was to strengthen the faith of their members.

Artist biography

Master of the Washington Coronation

Italian painter, active 1324

Provenance

-1959

Mr. Richard H. Zinser, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1959-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lavagnino, Emilio. Storia dell'arte medioevale italiana; l'età paleocristiana e l'alto medioevo, l'arte romanica, il gotico e il trecento. Torino: Unione tipografico-editrice torinese, 1936. Fig. 696, p. 842

Toesca, Piero, "Quelques Miniatures Venitiennes du XIV Siecle," Scriptorium I (1946-47). pp. 71-72, pl. 4

Mirella Levi d'Ancona, "Miniature Venete Nella Collezione Wildenstein," Arte Veneta X (1956). pp. 28-31

Wixom, W. D. (1961). A Venetian Mariegola Miniature. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 48(8), 206–211. www.jstor.org

Wixom, W.D., Bolletino dei Musei Civici Veneziani, VI, 4 (1961). p. 14, no. 14

Kirkwood, Marie, "The Kirkwood: On Art, Cleveland Museum Offers View of World Art," The Sun Newspaper Thursday November 30, 1961. p. 10

Walcher Casorti, Maria, Miniature e Miniaturi a Venezia nelle Prima Meta del XIV Secolo, Trieste, Universita Degli Studi, 1962. fig. 1

Nationalmuseum (Sweden), and Pontus Grate. Konstens Venedig: utställning anordnad med anledning av Konung Gustaf VI Adolfs åttioårsdag : Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 20 oktober 1962-10-februari 1963. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1962. p. 31, pl. 2

Pallucchini, Rodolfo. La pittura veneziana del Trecento. Venezia: Istituto per la collaborazione culturale, 1964. fig 270, pp. 85-92

Wadsworth Atheneum. An Exhibition of Italian Panels & Manuscripts from the Thirteenth & Fourteenth Centuries, in Honor of Richard Offner: April 9 to June 6, 1965, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Hartford [Conn.]: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1965. no. 110

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 56 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 56 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 62 archive.org

Lucco, Mauro. Il Trecento. Milano: Electa, 1992. p. 401, no. 544

Kresge Art Museum, Carol Garrett Fisher, and Kathleen L. Scott. Art into Life: Collected Papers from the Kresge Art Museum Medieval Symposia. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995. p. 172, fig. 9

Guarnieri, Cristina. 2007. "Il passaggio tra due generazioni: dal Maestro dell'Incoronazione a Paolo Veneziano". Secolo Di Giotto Nel Veneto / Istituto Veneto Di Scienze, Lettere Ed Arti. A Cura Di Giovanna Valenzano E Federica Toniolo. 153-201.

Humphrey, Lyle. La miniatura per le confraternite e le arti veneziane: mariegole dal 1260 al 1460. Sommacampagna - Verona: Cierre edizioni; [Venice]: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 2015. Reproduced: Tav. IIIa; Mentioned: p. 146-147, no. 3.1

Exhibition history

Konstens Venedig. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden (organizer) (October 20, 1962-February 10, 1963).

An Exhibition of Italian Panels & Manuscripts from the Thirteenth & Fourteenth Centuries In Honor of Richard Offner. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (organizer) (April 9-June 6, 1965).

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).

Heavenly Ornament: The Art of Paolo Veneziano. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (July 13-October 3, 2021).

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