id:			121223
accession number:	1942.1091
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.1091
updated:		2025-02-20 12:03:21.367000

Altar Cross, c. 1300–1310. Germany or Austria, Upper Rhine, Constance, 14th century. Gilt copper, champlevé enamel, gemstones, on wood core; without base: 50.2 x 39.4 cm (19 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1942.1091

title:				Altar Cross
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creation date:			c. 1300–1310
creation date earliest:		1295
creation date latest:		1315
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Germany or Austria, Upper Rhine, Constance, 14th century
technique:	gilt copper, champlevé enamel, gemstones, on wood core
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Gothic
type:		Metalwork
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measurements: without base: 50.2 x 39.4 cm (19 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Commemoration of the Opening of the Walters Gallery Wing
	opening date:   1974-11-06T05:00:00
	<i>Commemoration of the Opening of the Walters Gallery Wing</i>. Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (November 6-24, 1974).

	title:		The Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World
	opening date:   2019-05-14T04:00:00
	<i>The Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World</i>. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (May 14-August 18, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Milliken, William M. “Copper-Gilt Cross from Vienna.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 30, no. 10 (December 1943): 147–156.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 147-149; Reproduced: Cover, p. 153, 156
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141092

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 152
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n39

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 52
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n76

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 53
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n77

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 60
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n80

	Cohen, Meredith. "The Bestiary beyond the Book." In <em>Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World</em>. Elizabeth Morrison and Larisa Grollemond, eds. pp. 177 - 225. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019.
	page number: 	Reproduced and mentioned: p. 186, cat. 38
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	Hamburger, Jeffrey F., and Rabanus Maurus. <em>Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg's Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus's Poems in Praise of the Cross.</em> Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 97; Reproduced: P. 99, fig. 63
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