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c. 1735–40
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Gilded wood, with relics in niches: gilded wood, mother-of-pearl, ebony, red silk, gold wire, seed pearls, rock crystal, pen and ink on paper
Overall: 165.1 x 108 x 20 cm (65 x 42 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1964.357
Location 214 Central and Northern European
Description Götz covers every surface in gold leaf, giving each part of the object equal importance, rather than simply framing a central picture. In this distinctively Central European approach, figural narrative is subordinate to the overall ensemble. Götz designed this object to rest on top of an altar, probably in front of a larger painted or sculpted decorative scheme. The work contains relics seen through the small windows on the perimeter. These small remains of holy figures demonstrate the persistence of a medieval Catholic tradition well into the 1700s.
Provenance Private collection, Styria, Austria
-1964
Dr. Kurt Rossacher (1918-1988), Salzburg, Austria, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1964-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 149
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Hawley, Henry. "An Austrian Alterpiece."
The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LIII , no. 12 (December, 1966): 361-366. Reproduced: p. 360,362, front and back covers
www.jstor.org
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Golden Anniversary Acquisition,” 1966, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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"Art - The Cleveland's Golden Show," Newsweek (September 12, 1966). p. 102
Lee, Sherman E. "Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16."
The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 7 (1966): 181-284. Referenced: cat. no. 7. Reproduced: p. 221
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Wolfgang Stechow, "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." ARTnews (September 1966): 30-64. Mentioned: p. 44; reproduced: p. 38
Burton, Richard. “Fifty Years of the Cleveland, Some Golden Anniversary Acquisitions.” Connoisseur 163 (October 1966): 128–35. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 132-133
“‘Golden Anniversary’ Acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Burlington Magazine 108, no. 764 (November 1966): 573–577. Reproduced: p. 579, fig. 53
Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. Reproduced: no. 176
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 149
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Möller, Lise, and Christian Theuerkauff. "Süddeutschland, Passau oder Oberösterreich, Um 1730, Hausaltar." In Die Bildwerke des 18. Jahrhunderts. Christian Theuerkauff, and Lise Lotte Möller, 3eds., 36-39. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1977. Mentioned: p. 38
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 165
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Diemer, Claudia. Georg Raphael Donner: die Reliefs : Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Ruprecht-Karl-Universität zu Heidelberg. Nürnberg, Germany: [publisher not identified], 1979. Reproduced: p. 192; Mentioned: p. 282-283
Baum, Elfriede. Katalog des Österreichischen Barockmuseums im Unteren Belvedere in Wien . Vienna, Austria: Herold, 1980. Reproduced: p. 103
Heisig, Alexander. Joseph Matthias Götz: (1696-1760) : Barockskulptur in Bayern und Österreich . Regensburg, Germany: Schnell + Steiner, 2004. Reproduced: p. 348-349
Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art . Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 191
Exhibition history
Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966).
