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Altar Cross with Stand

Altar Cross with Stand

1140–1150

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.
  • Private collection, Strasbourg; Paul Cassirer, Berlin; (Adolf Loewi, Los Angeles).
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 144-145, no. 49
    Sanjosé i Llongueras, Lourdes de. Obras emblemáticas del taller de orfebrería medieval de Silos: "el Maestro de las Aves" y su círculo. Santo Domingo de Silos (Burgos): Abadía de Silos, 2016. Mentioned: P.198, n. 325
    Mende, Ursula, Michael Brandt, Claudia Höhl, and Lothar Lambacher. Gusswerke: Beiträge zur Bronzekunst des Mittelalters, Regensburg : Schnell + Steiner, 2020, 114 Mentioned: p. 114
  • Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).
    Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"
    Ithaca, NY, 1968: Andrew White Museum of Art, A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the 3rd to the 16th Centuries, no.43
    Religious Art. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (December 15, 1964-January 10, 1965).
    Buffalo, NY, 1964: Albright-Knox Gallery, Religious Art, no.36
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