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Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Leaf from a Missal: Text (verso)
c. 1330–40
Sheet: 35.4 x 23.5 cm (13 15/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1949.204.b
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Below the cross a small skull is visible, Golgotha the site of the crucifixion was often translated as "place of the skull."Description
The crucified Christ was a central theme of medieval visual art. Each period set its own artistic and iconographic priorities, depending on the function and context of the works. For example, the dead Christ with his head bowed, the side wound dripping with blood, and the richly designed loincloth is characteristic of the 1300s. This miniature is localized to Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic and Slovakia), with its capital Prague as a leading art center of its time. The great plague, however, does not seem to have triggered a surge of innovation here.- Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), New York, NY?-1949Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch (1874-1959), New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1949-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Ricci, Seymour de. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Supplement. New York: Bibliographical Society, 1961.Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, and Your Neighbor's Faith (Group). Religious Art from Byzantium to Chagall: [Catalogue of] a Loan Exhibition, Dec. 13, 1964 to Jan. 10, 1965. 1965. no. 38
- Religious Art from Byzantium to Chagall, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY (Dec. 13, 1964- Jan. 10, 1965).
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