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157 objects · 1 museum collection · image rights on each record

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (recto) and Text (verso)
Boethius Illuminator · c. 1410–20
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Text (verso)
Boethius Illuminator · c. 1410–20
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Stained Glass Roundel with an Angel Holding a Scroll
Unknown maker · c. 1425–50
Cleveland Museum of Art
![Leaf from a Book of Hours: Decorated Initial D[eus] with Foliated Border (Opening of Terce: Hours of the Holy Spirit) at the Cleveland Museum of Art](https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.205/2005.205_web.jpg)
Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Decorated Initial D[eus] with Foliated Border (Opening of Terce: Hours of the Holy Spirit)
Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish) · 1430s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Penitential Psalms
Noël Bellemare · c. 1530–35
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Pyx
Unknown maker · c. 1170–1180
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Flight into Egypt (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)
Unknown maker · early 1300s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Initial V with Floral Border (recto); Text (verso)
Unknown maker · c. 1460–1500
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Saint John the Evangelist
Unknown maker · c. 1325–1330
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
Altar Front
Unknown maker · c. 540–600
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Cutting from a Gradual: Initial I with Departure of Tobias
"Master of Noah's Ark" · c. 1390
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Peasant (verso)
Unknown maker · c. 1524
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
Everhard Rensig (German) · 1522–26
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial P: St. Paul with a Sword and a Book
William de Brailes · c. 1230–40
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
The Crucifixion
Unknown maker · c. 1290–1320
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Angel from an Architectural Reliquary
Unknown maker · c. 1400
Cleveland Museum of Art

Ottonian
Christ's Mission to the Apostles
Unknown maker · c. 970–980
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Leaf Excised from an Antiphonary: Initial Q with Saints Peter and Paul
Unknown maker · c. 1325
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque: Seated Prophet from a Reliquary Shrine
Unknown maker · c. 1170–80
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Saint Catherine with a Kneeling Male Donor
Unknown maker · 1400s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
The Judgment of Solomon
Dirk Vellert · c. 1530
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Double-Arm Reliquary Cross
Unknown maker · c. 1100–1200
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Initial I: Entwined Beast and Serpent: Leaf from a Bible (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)
Unknown maker · c. 1225–50
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
Ivory Box with Scenes of Adam and Eve
Unknown maker · 1000–1100s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
Ivory Plaque with Enthroned Mother of God ("The Stroganoff Ivory")
Unknown maker · 950–1025
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Kneeling Prophet from the Reliquary Chasse of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Jean de Clichy · 1409
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Leaf from an Antiphonary: Coronation of the Virgin
Master of the Beffi Triptych · 1400s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Stained Glass Panel with Female Donor
Unknown maker · c. 1480
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Stained Glass Panel with Male Donor
Unknown maker · c. 1480
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Arm Reliquary of the Apostles
Unknown maker · c. 1190
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Blood Reliquary
Unknown maker · 1500s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Fishing (verso)
Unknown maker · c. 1500–1510
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Leaf from a Psalter: Initial D: David at the Altar on the Threshing Floor of Ornan
Unknown maker · c. 1270–80
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Blood Reliquary (lid)
Unknown maker · 1500s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Hunting Wild Boars (recto) and Ape Fishing (verso)
Unknown maker · c. 1500–1510
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)
Master of Jacques de Luxembourg · c. 1465
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ (left wing: Raising of Lazarus and Crucifixion)
Unknown maker · c. 1350–1375
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Saint Martin of Tours: The Consecration of Saint Martin as Bishop (left); Saint Martin Shares his Cloak with a Beggar
Unknown maker · 1340–1350
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial A and Initial A: Judith Beheading Holofernes
Leber Group · c. 1230–1240
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Monstrance with a Relic of Saint Sebastian
Unknown maker · 1484
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath
Unknown maker · c. 1525
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Carnations, a Thistle, and a Cook Ladling Soup (verso)
Unknown maker · c. 1524
Cleveland Museum of Art
![Initial G[audeamus omnes] from a Gradual: The Court of Heaven at the Cleveland Museum of Art](https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.105/1930.105_web.jpg)
Gothic
Initial G[audeamus omnes] from a Gradual: The Court of Heaven
Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci · 1371–77
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross (Sext, Hours of the Cross)
Unknown maker · c. 1410–1420
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Leaf with Initial from a Latin Bible: Initial M: St. Paul with a Sword and a Book
Vienna Moralized Bible Workshop · c. 1220
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Reliquary Statuette of the Virgin and Child
Unknown maker · c. 1330
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
The Adoration of the Magi from the Parish Church of Maria am Waasen in Leoben
Unknown maker · c. 1410–20
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
The "Apostles" Pyx (Box)
Triptych Group · c. 980–1010
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
The Judgment of Solomon and Esther before Ahasuerus (pair)
Dirk Vellert · c. 1530
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Esther before Ahasuerus
Dirk Vellert · c. 1530
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead: Angel Chasing a Devil (recto)
Coëtivy Master · c. 1460
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Labors (recto)
Unknown maker · c. 1524
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque: The Journey to Bethlehem
Unknown maker · c. 1100–1120
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Triptych: The Life of the Virgin
Unknown maker · c. 1325–1350
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Two Windows Depicting the Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi
Unknown maker · c. 1410–20
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque with Seated Prophet from a Reliquary Shrine: Achapias (Obadiah)
Unknown maker · c. 1170–80
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque with Seated Prophet from a Reliquary Shrine: Osea (Hosea)
Unknown maker · c. 1170–80
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
Ivory Pyx (Box)
Unknown maker · 500s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
Leaf from a Greek Psalter and New Testament
Unknown maker · 1084
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Initial E with Ornamental Border Containing a Seated Satyr and a Bird Eating Grapes (recto) and Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)
Unknown maker · c. 1524
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess
Unknown maker · 1325–50
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Pair of Stained Glass Panels with Male and Female Donor
Unknown maker · c. 1480
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
Phylactery (Reliquary Penant)
Unknown maker · c. 500–700
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Reliquary in Purse Form
Unknown maker · c. 1320
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Set of Three Panels from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances
Unknown maker · c. 1330–50
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves
Unknown maker · c. 1275–1300
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
The Judgment of Paris
Unknown maker · c. 1510–20
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Monstrance with the "Paten of Saint Bernward"
Saint Oswald Reliquary Workshop (German) · c. 1180–1190
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Casket
Unknown maker · 1100–1150?
Cleveland Museum of Art

Medieval collection
Close Helmet for the Field
Unknown maker · c.1550–70
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: King David in Prayer (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)
Noël Bellemare · c. 1530–35
Cleveland Museum of Art

Medieval collection
Leaf from a Psalter: Historiated Initial D with The Trinity
Master of the Queen Mary Psalter (English) · c.1310
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Leaf from a Psalter: Initial D: A Fool Rebuked by God
Unknown maker · c. 1300–1320
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Plaque: The Crucifixion with Angels and Saints
Unknown maker · c. 1400–1425
Cleveland Museum of Art

Medieval collection
Suit of Armor
Unknown maker · c.1550–70
Cleveland Museum of Art

Insular
Wooden Casket: Scenes from the Life of Christ
Unknown maker · c. 1050
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
Cosmetic Jar
Unknown maker · 500–550
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Matthew
Unknown maker · 1057–1063
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Leather Casket with Scenes of Courtly Love
Unknown maker · c. 1350–1400
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Adjoining Leaves from a Book of Hours: Penitential Psalms and King David in Prayer (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)
Noël Bellemare · c. 1530–35
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Enthroned Virgin and Child
Unknown maker · 1225–50
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Crucifixion
Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish) · 1430s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Choir Psalter: Initial B with King David in Prayer
Maestro del Messale Barbo · c. 1460–1470
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque Pair: Simon and Thaddaeus and Thomas and Matthew
Unknown maker · c. 1160
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Quatrilobed Plaque
Unknown maker · c. 1280–1300
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Betrayal of Christ
Maître François · c. 1470–85
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Plaque: Christ Carrying the Cross
Unknown maker · c. 1480–1500
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Dragon's Head
Unknown maker · 1100–1150
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead: Two Devils (verso)
Coëtivy Master · c. 1460
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque, probably from a Reliquary Shrine
Unknown maker · c. 1200–1250
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ (right wing: Entry into Jerusalem and Entombment)
Unknown maker · c. 1350–1375
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Jacob Returning to Canaan with Rachael and Leah Pursued by Laban
Unknown maker · c. 1525
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Jeremiah
Unknown maker · c. 1440–1450
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Pendant with the Virgin and Child
Godefroid de Huy (Netherlandish) · c. 1160–1170
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque from a Portable Altar: Christ and the Apostles
Unknown maker · 1050–1100
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque, probably from a Reliquary Shrine
Unknown maker · c. 1180–1190
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Crucified Christ
Unknown maker · c. 1480–1500
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ (left wing: Raising of Lazarus and Crucifixion) (right wing: Entry into Jerusalem and Entombment)
Unknown maker · c. 1350–1375
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon
Unknown maker · 1347
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Frontispiece Miniature from the Manuscript of a Poem by Guillaume Crétin: Debate Between Two Women
Master of Francis I · c. 1537–1540
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead: Angel Chasing a Devil (recto) and Two Devils (verso)
Coëtivy Master · c. 1460
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Pair of Plaques (Appliqué)
Unknown maker · 1300s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing Christ and the Apostles
Unknown maker · 1050–1100
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque from a Portable Altar: Zacharias at the Altar
Unknown maker · c. 1100–1125
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine
Unknown maker · c. 1180–1190
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
The Annunciation from the Parish Church of Maria am Waasen in Leoben
Unknown maker · c. 1410–20
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque: Seated Prophet from a Reliquary Shrine: Esaias (Isaiah)
Unknown maker · c. 1170–80
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Bust Reliquary of St. Louis, Bishop of Toulouse
Unknown maker · late 1300s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and The Kiss of Judas (pair)
Everhard Rensig (German) · 1522–1526
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Diptych: Scenes from the Passion and Afterlife of Christ
Unknown maker · c. 1330–1350
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (recto)
Boethius Illuminator · c. 1410–20
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Labors (recto) and Calendar Page with Peasant (verso)
Unknown maker · c. 1524
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Pea Vines and a Girl Kneading Bread (recto)
Unknown maker · c. 1524
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Panel from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances
Unknown maker · 1330
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine
Unknown maker · c. 1170
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Plaque: The Virgin and Child with Angels
Unknown maker · c. 1320–1330
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque with Seated Prophet from a Reliquary Shrine: Heliseus (Elisha)
Unknown maker · c. 1170–80
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Saint George
Unknown maker · c. 1440–1450
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
The Kiss of Judas
Everhard Rensig (German) · 1522–1526
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Arms of the Cistercian Order
Unknown maker · 1547
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Hunting Wild Boars (recto)
Unknown maker · c. 1500–1510
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for May (recto) and Calendar Page for June (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)
Unknown maker · c. 1510
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque: Simon and Thaddaeus
Unknown maker · c. 1160
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque: Thomas and Matthew
Unknown maker · c. 1160
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Sts. Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret (recto) and Text (verso)
Boucicaut Master · c. 1415
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Panels
Unknown maker · c.1200–1225
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Plaque: The Crucifixion
Unknown maker · c. 1345–1365
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Roundel with the Annunciation
Unknown maker · c. 1470
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Fragment of an Ornamental Crest from a Reliquary Shrine
Unknown maker · c. 1165–1180
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist (lid)
Unknown maker · 1300s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Ottonian
Book-Shaped Reliquary
The Master of the Registrum Gregorii · c. 1000
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Decorative Plaque, Probably from a Reliquary Shrine
Unknown maker · c. 1200
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Enthroned Virgin and Child
Unknown maker · c. 1250
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Heart-Shaped Panel: Figure of a Woman with a Banderole (Sibyl ?)
Unknown maker · c. 1480–1520
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Last Judgment
Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish) · 1430s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Pendant Triptych with an Onyx Cameo of the Nativity
Unknown maker · c. 1460–1500; cameo: c. 1250–1300
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Plaque, probably from a Reliquary Shrine
Unknown maker · 1225–1250
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
The Trinity: Leaf from a Gradual with Initial B
Perugino · c. 1496–1502
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Heraldic Roundel
Unknown maker · 1500s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross
Unknown maker · c. 1430
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Leaf from a Bible: Initial E: Entwined Lions and Serpents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves)
Unknown maker · c. 1225–50
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi" (pair)
Unknown maker · c. 1220
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket
Master G. Alpais · 1220–25
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing the Crucifixion
Unknown maker · 1050–1100
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Portable Altar
Unknown maker · c. 1200–1220
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist
Unknown maker · 1300s
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Plaque: The Crucifixion and Virgin and Child with Angels
Unknown maker · c. 1250–70
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
The So-called Horn of Saint Blaise
Unknown maker · 1100–1200
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
The Story of Lucretia
Master of the "Kanis Triptych" (Netherlandish) · c. 1530
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
The Trinity
Laurent Girardin · c. 1460
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso)
Unknown maker · c. 1524
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi"
Unknown maker · c. 1220
Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque
Reliquary
Unknown maker · 1200–1300
Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic
Reliquary of the True Cross
Unknown maker · c. 1214
Cleveland Museum of Art

International Gothic
Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy
Claus de Werve · 1404–10
Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine
Icon of the Mother of God and Infant Christ (Virgin Eleousa)
Attributed to Angelos Akotantos · c. 1425–50
Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic
Saint Jerome and the Lion
Tilman Riemenschneider · c. 1495
Cleveland Museum of Art