COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
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The AMICA Library
Collection
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AMICA ID:
CMA_.2001.119
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CMA_.2001.119
AMICA ID
false
AMICA Library Year:
2002
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2002
AMICA Library Year
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Object Type:
Costume and Jewelry
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Costume and Jewelry
Object Type
false
Creator Nationality:
European; Iberian; Spanish; Visigothic
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European; Iberian; Spanish; Visigothic
Creator Nationality
false
Creator Name-CRT:
Visigothic (Spain), Migration Period
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Visigothic (Spain), Migration Period
Creator Name-CRT
false
Title:
Belt Buckle
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Belt Buckle
Title
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Title Type:
Primary
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Primary
Title Type
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View:
Detail
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Detail
View
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Creation Date:
c. 525-560
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c. 525-560
Creation Date
false
Creation Start Date:
525
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525
Creation Start Date
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Creation End Date:
560
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560
Creation End Date
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Materials and Techniques:
bronze with garnets, mother-of-pearl, green glass, traces of gilding, gold foil
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bronze with garnets, mother-of-pearl, green glass, traces of gilding, gold foil
Materials and Techniques
false
Classification Term:
Jewelry
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Jewelry
Classification Term
false
Dimensions:
Overall: 0cm x 6.7cm
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Overall: 0cm x 6.7cm
Dimensions
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AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
AMICA Contributor
false
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Owner Location
false
ID Number:
2001.119
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2001.119
ID Number
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Credit Line:
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Credit Line
false
Rights:
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<a href="http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html"target="_new">http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html</a>
Rights
false
Context:
The art of the European Migration Period (3rd-7th centuries AD) is almost exclusively one of personal adornment-a portable art that followed men and women to their graves. Belt buckles with large rectangular attachment plates have been discovered in cemeteries across the Iberian Peninsula-now occupied by Spain and Portugal-from the period of Visigothic occupation (about AD 412-711). Their decoration varies. Finer examples, like this one, are distinguished by brilliantly inlaid semi-precious stones and colored glass. Garnets were especially prized in Visigothic society for use in cloisonné jewelry. The technique involved the fitting of carefully cut pieces of polished garnet into an intricate grid of compartments, or cloisons. This buckle is so densely inlaid with garnets that it presents a virtual "carpet" of red to the eye. These large Visigothic buckles are strikingly uniform in shape yet endlessly varied in surface design, perhaps a sign that they expressed the personal identities of their original owners. Grave excavations have shown that belt buckles of this type were made for women.
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The art of the European Migration Period (3rd-7th centuries AD) is almost exclusively one of personal adornment-a portable art that followed men and women to their graves. Belt buckles with large rectangular attachment plates have been discovered in cemeteries across the Iberian Peninsula-now occupied by Spain and Portugal-from the period of Visigothic occupation (about AD 412-711). Their decoration varies. Finer examples, like this one, are distinguished by brilliantly inlaid semi-precious stones and colored glass. Garnets were especially prized in Visigothic society for use in cloisonné jewelry. The technique involved the fitting of carefully cut pieces of polished garnet into an intricate grid of compartments, or cloisons. This buckle is so densely inlaid with garnets that it presents a virtual "carpet" of red to the eye. These large Visigothic buckles are strikingly uniform in shape yet endlessly varied in surface design, perhaps a sign that they expressed the personal identities of their original owners. Grave excavations have shown that belt buckles of this type were made for women.
Context
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Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.AM20021743.tif
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CMA_.AM20021743.tif
Related Image Identifier Link
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