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Source Description
From the 11th century onward, altar crosses like this one often featured elaborate bases. The most impressive decoration of this cross is its stand: a lavish array of intertwining scrolls emerges from three pawlike legs, while birds perch amid the scrolls and dragon heads sprout from others.
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Document identity
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123807
label
Altar Cross with Stand
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123807
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object
title
Altar Cross with Stand
description
From the 11th century onward, altar crosses like this one often featured elaborate bases. The most impressive decoration of this cross is its stand: a lavish array of intertwining scrolls emerges from three pawlike legs, while birds perch amid the scrolls and dragon heads sprout from others.
date
1140–1150
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60754401
genreSpecific
Metalwork
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 43.4 x 22.5 x 8 cm (17 1/16 x 8 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
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Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?, Romanesque period, 12th century
accession
1944.32
Source extras
tec
bronze: cast, gilded, engraved, and chased
tombstone
Altar Cross with Stand, 1140–1150. Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?, Romanesque period, 12th century. Bronze: cast, gilded, engraved, and chased; overall: 43.4 x 22.5 x 8 cm (17 1/16 x 8 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.320
collection
MED - Romanesque
citations
citation
Winter, Patrick M. de. “The Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 1 (March 1985): 2–160.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 94; reproduced: p. 92, pl. XIX
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein<em>. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 144-145, no. 49
citation
Sanjosé i Llongueras, Lourdes de. <em>Obras emblemáticas del taller de orfebrería medieval de Silos: "el Maestro de las Aves" y su círculo</em>. Santo Domingo de Silos (Burgos): Abadía de Silos, 2016.
page_number
Mentioned: P.198, n. 325
citation
Mende, Ursula. <em>Gusswerke: BeiträGe Zur Bronzekunst Des Mittelalters.</em> Edited by Michael Brandt, Claudia Höhl, and Lothar Lambacher. 1. Auflage. [Berlin], Regensburg: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V.; Schnell + Steiner, 2020.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 114
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 06:22:42.619000
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123807
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Medieval Art
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MED - Romanesque
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bronze: cast, gilded, engraved, and chased
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