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Miniature from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse: The Woman Clothed with the Sun and The War in Heaven

Miniature from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse: The Woman Clothed with the Sun and The War in Heaven

c. 1295
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Sheet: 12 x 14.2 cm (4 3/4 x 5 9/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1983.73.2
Location: not on view

Description

The visionary text of St. John the Evangelist's Apocalypse, the final book of the New Testament, inspired these images of salvation, sin, and divine retribution. A large number of illustrated volumes of the Apocalypse appeared in Northern Europe, especially in England, after the year 1240--perhaps reflecting a fear of the world's end. These miniatures come from a manuscript produced in Lorraine, then artistically influenced by English models.
  • -1819
    Daniel Burkhardt-Wildt (1759-1819), Basel, passed to his descendants
    25 April 1983
    Sale: Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1983, lot 50
    1983-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    De Winter, Patrick M. “Visions of the Apocalypse in Medieval England and France.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 10 (1983). pp. 396–417 www.jstor.org
    "Englische Miniaturenfolge aus dem 13. Jahrhundert," Artis-kunstmarkt Auktionen (April 1983).
    Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. Single Leaves and Miniatures from Western Illuminated Manuscripts. 1983. Lot 50, p. 26
    Morgan, Neil, "The Burckhardt-Wildt Apocalypse," in Ayers, Tim. Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's, 1982-83 : Two Hundred and Forty-Nineth Season. Totowa, N.J.: Sotheby Publications, 1983. pp. 162-169
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    Cleveland Museum of Art. Images of the Mind. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987. p. 18
    Michael, Michael, "The Virgin and Child before a firescreen at the National Gallery" Apollo (May 1996). pp. 11-12, fig. 8
    Hindman, Sandra. Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction. Evanston, IL: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 2001. p. 86, fig. 40
  • Devotion and Leaning in the Middle Ages- (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
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