Cleveland's Medieval Masterpieces to Travel
Thursday August 24, 2006
by Stan Parchin
August 24, 2006
A significant number of medieval artworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art will travel to Bavaria and California next year during the institution's $258 million (US) renovation and expansion designed by renowned architect Rafael Viñoly. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art will feature superb examples of Early Christian, Byzantine and Western European art in the form of illuminated manuscripts, paintings, prints, decorative arts, sculptures and textiles. Dating from the Third through Early Sixteenth Centuries, the works were amassed over a 90-year period and represent medieval artistic traditions from the British Isles, continental Europe and geographic regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Objects in Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures... will help describe artistic patronage, courtly life, religious devotion and aspects of warfare from Late Antiquity through the early years of the Renaissance. Among the show's highlights will be a Byzantine Icon of the Virgin (Sixth Century A.D.) and a Mourner (1406-10) from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1342-1404) by Netherlandish sculptor Claus de Werve (ca. 1380-1439). The exhibition's first stop will be the National Museum of Bavaria in Munich, Germany in Summer 2007, followed by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California that Fall.
Image credit:
Tilman Riemenschneider (German, 1460-1531)
Saint Jerome and the Lion, ca. 1490-95
From the former Church of Saint Peter in Erfurt
Alabaster
1946.82
© Cleveland Museum of Art
August 24, 2006
A significant number of medieval artworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art will travel to Bavaria and California next year during the institution's $258 million (US) renovation and expansion designed by renowned architect Rafael Viñoly. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art will feature superb examples of Early Christian, Byzantine and Western European art in the form of illuminated manuscripts, paintings, prints, decorative arts, sculptures and textiles. Dating from the Third through Early Sixteenth Centuries, the works were amassed over a 90-year period and represent medieval artistic traditions from the British Isles, continental Europe and geographic regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Objects in Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures... will help describe artistic patronage, courtly life, religious devotion and aspects of warfare from Late Antiquity through the early years of the Renaissance. Among the show's highlights will be a Byzantine Icon of the Virgin (Sixth Century A.D.) and a Mourner (1406-10) from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1342-1404) by Netherlandish sculptor Claus de Werve (ca. 1380-1439). The exhibition's first stop will be the National Museum of Bavaria in Munich, Germany in Summer 2007, followed by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California that Fall.
Image credit:
Tilman Riemenschneider (German, 1460-1531)
Saint Jerome and the Lion, ca. 1490-95
From the former Church of Saint Peter in Erfurt
Alabaster
1946.82
© Cleveland Museum of Art
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