Saint John Dictating to the Venerable Bede
c. 1140
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen with brown and red ink with color washes on vellum
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 35.2 x 23.5 cm (13 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1950.16.290
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Catalogue Raisonné
NGA Miniatures 1975, no. 27
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1950
Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no. 1, repro.
Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 2, repro.
1953
Mediaeval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, Los Angeles County Museum, 1953-1954, no. 15, repro.
1960
Art of the Romanesque, University Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN, 1960-1961, no. 9, repro.
1965
Of Time and the Image: Three Periods of Change, Philadelphia College of Art, 1965-1966, no. 22.
1971
A Selection of X-Xv Century Medieval Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971, no. 8.
1975
Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 27, repro.
1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 14-15.
2009
Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.
Bibliography
1975
National Gallery of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1975: no. 27.
1997
Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997: 97-98, 205, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q64537065