Saint John Dictating to the Venerable Bede

c. 1140

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen with brown and red ink with color washes on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 35.2 x 23.5 cm (13 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.16.290

  • 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


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