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"title": "Altar Cross",
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"title": "Commemoration of the Opening of the Walters Gallery Wing",
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"description": "This cross is traditionally said to come from the Benedictine Abbey of Meherau on Lake Constance in today\u2019s Austria. During the 12th and 13th centuries the abbey became wealthy through the acquisition of landed property. This beautiful cross would have likely embellished one of the abbey\u2019s many altars where it symbolized Christ\u2019s presence in the Mass.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cCopper-Gilt Cross from Vienna.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 30, no. 10 (December 1943): 147\u2013156.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "Cohen, Meredith. \"The Bestiary beyond the Book.\" In Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World. Elizabeth Morrison and Larisa Grollemond, eds. pp. 177 - 225. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019.",
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"citation": "Hamburger, Jeffrey F., and Rabanus Maurus. Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg's Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus's Poems in Praise of the Cross. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.",
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