The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Bella Donna Charger
c. 1520–30
Diameter: 8.6 x 41.3 cm (3 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1923.1096
Location: 118 Italian Renaissance
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Scholars believe that chargers such as these were given as marriage gifts or in memory of someone who had died.Description
Ceremonial plates decorated with a bella donna (beautiful woman) feature half-length portraits of a young woman surrounded by scrolled banners. Many bella donna plates were informed by the frescos of Renaissance painters Pietro Perugino and Pinturicchio.- (M. & R. Stora, Paris).
- The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 91 archive.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 91 archive.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 102 archive.orgCleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 45, fig. 47
- No existing exhibition history
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