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Virgin and Child with Four Saints

Virgin and Child with Four Saints

c. 1500
tapestry weave: linen warp, wool and silk wefts
Overall: 78.7 x 154.9 cm (31 x 61 in.)
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection 1939.162
Location: 115 Manuscripts & Textiles

Description

Mary and Jesus are seen in front of a wall in a garden that alludes to the Garden of Paradise. They are depicted between four saints: Saint Catherine,
John the Evangelist, Jodocus, and Mary Magdalene. The saints wear costumes fashionable around 1475 to 1480. The hanging is said to come from the parish church in St. Lawrence in Nuremberg, Franconia, Bavaria, one of the most important in the commercial city. The appearance of Jodocus may indicate that the
textile may have been donated by a wealthy citizen of the same name.
  • supposed to have been in the Cathedral of St. Lorenz of Nuremberg (Göbel, p. 173).
  • Guiffrey, Jules. Les tapisseries du XIIe à la fin du XVIe siècle. Paris: E. Lévy, 1911. p. 175, fig. 88
    Kurth, Betty. Die deutschen Bildteppiche des Mittelalters. Wien: A. Schroll, 1926. I:189, 273
    Luitpold. Die fränkische Bildwirkerei. Firenze: Pantheon Casa Editrice, 1926. p. 79-80
    Kurth, Betty. Die deutschen Bildteppiche des Mittelalters. Wien: A. Schroll, 1926. vol. I p 189, 273, vol. III taf 313
    Luitpold. Die fränkische Bildwirkerei. Firenze: Pantheon Casa Editrice, 1926. no. 51
    Göbel Heinrich. 1933. Wandteppiche. Vol. Teil 1, Teil 3, Die Germanischen Und Slawischen Länder. Deutschland Einschließlich Schweiz Und Elsass (mittelalter), Süddeutschland (16. Bis 18. Jahrhundert). Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann. 3/1: 173-174
    Underhill, Gertrude. "Tapestries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 6 (1939): 103-02. p. 104-105 25138020.
    Milliken, William M. "Silver Jubilee Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 6 (1941): 88-111. p. 103 illus 25140932.
    Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952 ; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952. Hartford, Conn: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951. p. 43; plate X, p. 72
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 193 archive.org
    Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Aspects of Late Mediaeval Art; The Mediaeval Conference, the Ohio State University. 1958. no. 2
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 68 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. 68 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. 77 archive.org
    Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. p. 16, 19, 58
    Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1986. p. 200, cat. no. 57
    Cleland, Elizabeth A. H., and Lorraine Karafel. Tapestries from the Burrell Collection. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, an imprint of I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 2017. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 85, fig. 1
  • Liturgical Textiles from Late Medieval Germany (Gallery 115 rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 11, 2023-August 4, 2024).
    Visions of the Divine: Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval Germany (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 14, 2016-December 4, 2017).
    Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985).
    Aspects of Late Medieval Art. The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH (October 31-November 20, 1958).
    2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (December 7, 1951-January 27, 1952); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (February 27-March 25, 1952).
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