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Christ's Mission to the Apostles

c. 970–980

Ottonian, Italy, Milan, Gothic period, 10th century

Ivory

Overall: 18.2 x 9.9 x 1 cm (7 3/16 x 3 7/8 x 3/8 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1967.65

Location

106C Medieval Treasury

Description

This ivory plaque represents a full-length figure of Christ flanked by bust-length portraits of the twelve apostles, six in a vertical column on each side. With his large eyes fixed on the beholder and his mouth slightly open, Christ seems about to speak to the apostles, charging them with the mission of preaching the Gospel to the world. The plaque may originally have formed the central decoration of a precious Gospel book cover that may have looked much like the one Christ carries in this image.

Provenance

Albin Chalandon, Lyon

Georges Chalandon, Paris

1949

Madame Georges Chalandon, Rome

Otto Wertheimer, Paris

1954-67

Private Coll., Switzerland

Albin Chalandon, Lyon; Georges Chalandon, Paris; Madame Georges Chalandon, Rome (1949); Otto Wertheimer, Paris; Private Coll., Switzerland (1954-1967)

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 44 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 49 archive.org

Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 490

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 128-129, no. 41

Goetsch, Emily. "World Maps and Waterways: Place and Space in the Beatus Mappaemundi." In Place and Space in the Medieval World. Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes and Heidi Stoner, 198-209. NY: Routlege, Taylor & Francis Group Ltd., 2018. Mentioned; p. 201, p. 208, note #8

Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Mentioned: p. 18-21; Reproduced: p. 19

Exhibition history

J. Seligmann: "Objects d' Art" 1913, p. 53, no. 104.

Paris, Musée des Art Décoratifs "Chefs d'oeuvres de la curiosité du monde" 1954: no. 266, pl. 120.

Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).

The Glory of Byzantium. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3-July 6, 1997).

Otto the Great, Magdeburg and Europe. Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, 39104 Magdeburg, Germany (organizer) (August 27-December 2, 2001).

Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).

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