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When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story

1 Dec 1981 – 17 Jan 1982

Initial S[alve sancta parens] from a Gradual: Madonna and Child, Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci — Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci · Initial S[alve sancta parens] from a Gradual: Madonna and Child, c. 1370–74

Exhibition

The Cleveland Museum of Art

1 Dec 1981 – 17 Jan 1982

Documented entries: 25
Participants: 12

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Works & records 25 About Artists 12 Record notes

About this exhibition

Event: Held
Venue & presenter: The Cleveland Museum of Art1 Dec 1981 – 17 Jan 1982
Artwork coverage: Partial exhibition recordThe final exhibition checklist has not been established.

Works & records

Images where available. Every entry keeps its exhibition evidence.

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All documented 25 Recorded as exhibited 25

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci
Initial S[alve sancta parens] from a Gradual: Madonna and Child
c. 1370–74
Bernardo Cavallino
Adoration of the Shepherds
c. 1650
Creator not recorded
The Nativity
c. 1520–40
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Madonna Nursing the Christ Child
c. 1670–72
Battista Dossi
Holy Family with a Shepherd
early 1520s
Albrecht Altdorfer
The Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt at a Fountain
c. 1520
Geertgen tot Sint Jans
The Adoration of the Magi
1480s
Martin Schongauer
The Flight into Egypt
1470–74
Creator not recorded
Tiburtine Sibyl and the Emperor Augustus
c. 1527–30/31
Gerard David
The Nativity
c. 1485–90
Unknown artist
Miniature Excised from a Psalter: The Nativity
c. 1270
Creator not recorded
The Annunciation
1380s
Johann Jakob von Sandrart
The Annunciation
last third 1600s
Creator not recorded
The Massacre of the Innocents (Without the Fir Tree)
c. 1511–12
Stefano da Verona (Italian, c. 1375–1438)
Initial M[issus est] Excised from an Antiphonary: The Annunciation
1430–1438
Martin Schongauer
The Angel of the Annunciation
c. 1470–75
Charles Poërson
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
c. 1640
Creator not recorded
Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Luke
1057–1063
Martin Schongauer
The Virgin of the Annunciation
1470–80
Albrecht Dürer
The Virgin with Hairband on a Crescent Moon
1508
Israhel van Meckenem
The Life of the Virgin: The Massacre of the Innocents
c. 1490–1500
Exhibition entry · Image unavailable
Creator not recorded
Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain
Date not recorded
Exhibition entry · Image unavailable
Creator not recorded
Bifolio from an Antiphonary: Historiated Initial O with the Nativity
Date not recorded
Exhibition entry · Image unavailable
Creator not recorded
Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425)
Date not recorded
Exhibition entry · Image unavailable
Creator not recorded
Leaf from a Psalter(?): Annunciation (recto); Nativity (verso)
Date not recorded

Artists & people

12 participants

Albrecht Altdorfer
artist
Albrecht Dürer
artist
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
artist
Image not available
Battista Dossi
artist

Exhibition record & evidence

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Cleveland Museum of Art · Record 304558Checked 2026-10-11

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Bernardo Cavallino

artist

Image not available

Charles Poërson

artist

Image not available

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci

artist

Geertgen tot Sint Jans

artist

Gerard David

artist

Image not available

Johann Jakob von Sandrart

artist

Martin Schongauer

artist

Image not available

The Cleveland Museum of Art

organizer