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    "localId": "149363",
    "label": "Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon",
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    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "149363",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon",
    "description": "With intricate carvings and lavish gilding, this frame holds 17 labeled relics, mostly bodily remains or belongings of saints, worshiped for their spiritual significance. The frame once contained a gilded glass image of the Virgin Mary and Christ child. A Latin inscription around the base likely refers to Mino Cinughi, rector (administrator) of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena during 1340–51, which cared for pilgrims on the way to Rome. <br>Believers sought healing in medieval hospitals through the veneration of relics hoping to elicit miracles from the saints. While this object probably resided on an altar, the ornamentation on both sides suggests it was also carried in processions.",
    "date": "1347",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.26",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60781289"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Glass"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.26/1978.26_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.26/1978.26_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.26/1978.26_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 66.7 x 51.3 x 25.3 cm (26 1/4 x 20 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, Siena"
    ],
    "accession": "1978.26"
}

{
    "tec": "gilded wood, modeled gesso, verre églomisé, glass cabochons, and relics",
    "tombstone": "Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon, 1347. Italy, Siena. Gilded wood, modeled gesso, verre églomisé, glass cabochons, and relics; overall: 66.7 x 51.3 x 25.3 cm (26 1/4 x 20 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka, 1978.26",
    "collection": "MED - Gothic",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "an inscription with a stipled background runs around the lowest edge of the upright part of the frame:  obverse: HOC/OPUS : FACTUM . FUIT . SUB . ANNO . DO/MINI; reverse: [small loss] /CCC . XLVII . TEMPORE . DOMINI . MINI/CINI.  [This/work : has . been . made . under . year . of . the . Lord [small loss] /300 47 . in . the . time . of the Lord . Mini/Cini.]  Another inscription appears on the obverse and reverse of the base:  LUCAS ME FECIT. [Luke has made me.]"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3–48.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 12; Mentioned: p. 42, no. 24",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wixom, William D. “Eleven Additions to the Medieval Collection.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 3 (Mar/Apr 1979): 87–151.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 128-132, figs. 83-85",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159622"
        },
        {
            "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. 264-265, no. 99"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bagnoli, Martina. <em>Treasures of heaven: saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 117, p. 202 - 203"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Migdal, Anna Maria. <em>Regina Cœli: les images mariales et le culte des reliques : entre Orient et Occident au Moyen Âge</em>. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. p. 196, 252, 324.",
            "page_number": ": p. 324, fig. 79 Mentioned: p. 196, 252Reproduced"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Zchomelidse, Nino. \"Liminal Phenomena: Framing Medieval Cult Images with Relics and Words.\" <em>Viator</em>. 47, no. 3 (2016): 243-296.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced p. 289, fig. 20; Mentioned p. 264"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Silver, Nathaniel E. and Alexa Beller. <em>Fra Angelico: Heaven on </em>Earth. Boston; London: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Paul Holberton Publishing, 2018.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p,. 43; Reproduced: p. 44"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) \"Painting under glass\" Accessed: 2021-02-13 21:25:42.",
            "page_number": "M.56 & A-1904",
            "url": "https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/28233"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Campbell, Caroline, Stephan Wolohojian, Imogen Tedbury, Christa Gardner von Teuffel, Donal Cooper, Andrea De Marchi, Emma Capron, et al. Siena : The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350. Edited by Joanna Cannon. London: National Gallery Global, 2024.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 185; reproduced: p. 184 and 186, fig, 136"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.26",
    "creditline": "Gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka",
    "galleryDonorText": "Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz Gallery",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-10 19:45:10.290000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.26/1978.26_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 149363,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Gothic",
    "med": "gilded wood, modeled gesso, verre églomisé, glass cabochons, and relics",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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