Processional Cross with Crucified Christ and God the Father

1480-1520 (Renaissance)

59.7 cm 161.3 cm 19.2 cm

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Crosses mounted on a staff were prominent in Catholic religious processions in the Renaissance, as they were in the Middle Ages and continue to be. The same maker's mark from Zaragossa has been stamped into the metal multiple times. It appears to be identical to one in use in...

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Acquired by Frédéric Spitzer, Paris; Spitzer Collection Sale, Paris, April 17-June 16 1893, no. 303. Purchased by Charles Davis, London. Purchased by Raoul Heilbronner, Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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