The Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Betrayal of Christ
c. 1525
workshop of Valerio Belli
(Italian, c. 1468–1546)
Overall: 8.6 x 9.5 cm (3 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Gift of Dr. Raymond N. Ferreri 1983.99
Location: 117A Italian Renaissance
Description
Born in Vicenza, Belli worked in Rome as a successful crystal and gem engraver, goldsmith, and medalist. His bronze plaquettes come almost without exception from crystal or hardstone carvings. This particular plaquette directly derives from a rock crystal intaglio by Belli bearing the same inscription in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, which originally was mounted with two other oval medallions of Christ Carrying the Cross and the Entombment in the silver-gilt base of a rock crystal crucifix, also in the collection of the Vatican Library. This crucifix is generally identified as the one, according to Vasari, created for Clement VII for which Belli received a payment of 1,111 gold ducats in 1525.- Galerie des monnaies of Geneva, Ltd. (New York, New York), sold to Philip P. Young (Cleveland, OH)Raymond N. Ferreri (Cleveland, OH), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983.
- Turner, Evan H. "Year in Review for 1983." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (February 1984): 38-79. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 67, no. 7 www.jstor.orgDe Winter, Patrick M. "Recent Accessions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts, Part II." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 4 (April 1986): 142-82. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 157-158, fig. 164 www.jstor.org
- The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
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