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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.
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Document identity
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143604
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Christ's Mission to the Apostles
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143604
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Christ's Mission to the Apostles
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.
date
c. 970–980
citation
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en
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Q60755927
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Ivory
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 18.2 x 9.9 x 1 cm (7 3/16 x 3 7/8 x 3/8 in.)
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Ottonian, Italy, Milan, Gothic period, 10th century
accession
1967.65
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ivory
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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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1967.65
collection
MED - Gothic
citations
citation
“Year in Review.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 54, no. 10 (December 1967): 302–346.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 42, no. 29; Reproduced: Back cover
citation
Wixom, William D. “An Ottonian Ivory Book Cover.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 55, no. 9 (November 1968): 275–289.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 274, fig. 1, Cover; Mentioned: p. 275, 279
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 44
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
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Reproduced: p. 49
citation
Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom. <em>The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 490
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein<em>. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: P. 128-129, no. 41
citation
Goetsch, Emily. "World Maps and Waterways: Place and Space in the Beatus Mappaemundi." In <em>Place and Space in the Medieval World.</em> Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes and Heidi Stoner, 198-209. NY: Routlege, Taylor & Francis Group Ltd., 2018.
page_number
Mentioned; p. 201, p. 208, note #8
citation
Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 18-21; Reproduced: p. 19
creditline
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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2026-05-29 07:22:20.498000
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143604
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Medieval Art
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MED - Gothic
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ivory
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