The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Mantle for a statue of the Virgin
late 1400s to 1500s
Average: 104.2 x 215.9 cm (41 x 85 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.975
Location: not on view
Description
A striped silk textile, probably made for use in the Islamic Alhambra palatine complex, was turned into a mantle for a statue of the Virgin Mary. On the crimson stripes the salutation that occurs as ornamental text throughout the Alhambra, Glory to our Lord the Sultan, repeats in Arabic script.- ?-1929(H. A. Elsberg, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1929-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- G. U. (Gertrude Underhill) "A Hispano-Moresque Mantle of the Fifteenth Century." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 4 (1930). p. 73-75 25137293Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. p. 34-5, 58Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. Reproduced: P. 205, fig. 5.38; Mentioned: P. 204-205.
- Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020).Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985).
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