id: 123807
accession number: 1944.320
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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
title: Altar Cross with Stand
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creation date: 1140–1150
creation date earliest: 1140
creation date latest: 1150
current location: 106C Medieval Treasury
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim?, Romanesque period, 12th century
technique: bronze: cast, gilded, engraved, and chased
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Romanesque
type: Metalwork
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measurements: 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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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Religious Art
opening date: 1964-12-15T05:00:00
Religious Art. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (December 15, 1964-January 10, 1965).
title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Buffalo, NY, 1964: Albright-Knox Gallery, Religious Art, no.36', 'opening_date': '1964-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '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', 'opening_date': '1968-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '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"', 'opening_date': '2007-05-10T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Private collection, Strasbourg; Paul Cassirer, Berlin; (Adolf Loewi, Los Angeles).
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CITATIONS
Winter, Patrick M. de. “The Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 1 (March 1985): 2–160.
page number: Mentioned: p. 94; reproduced: p. 92, pl. XIX
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159893
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.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 144-145, no. 49
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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.
page number: Mentioned: P.198, n. 325
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Mende, Ursula. Gusswerke: BeiträGe Zur Bronzekunst Des Mittelalters. 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
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IMAGES
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