The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Medallion from the Border of a Latin Bible: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
early 1300s
(Italian)
Diameter: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
Location: Not on view
Description
As revealed by their subjects and blank versos (reverse sides), these medallions were undoubtedly excised from a Genesis page in a large lectern Bible. Typically, such medallions would have appeared in conjunction with a large-scale historiated initial I running the full length of the text and introducing the book of Genesis: In principio creativit Deus caelum et terram (In the beginning God created heaven and earth). Such schemes of page layout and decoration were common features of Bibles produced in Bolognese workshops and destined for wealthy religious institutions of the Emilian region, for which Bologna was the artistic and intellectual center.- Mortimer Brandt; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron]
- Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 18, cat. no. 11 archive.org
- Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City. Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (organizer) (November 5, 2021-January 30, 2022) https://fristartmuseum.org/exhibition/medieval-bologna-art-for-a-university-city/.The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 11, illus. p. 18.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2003.170