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"title": "Plaque with Seated Prophet from a Reliquary Shrine: Heliseus (Elisha)",
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"id": 226447,
"title": "Reflection of Heaven--Romanesque in Hildesheim",
"description": "Reflection of Heaven--Romanesque in Hildesheim. Dom-Museum Hildesheim (organizer) (August 15-December 16, 2001).",
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"title": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "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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"description": "University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, \"Romanesque Art\" November 6-December 4, 1960.",
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"description": "Dom-Museum Hildesheim, Germany; August 15-December 16, 2001. \"Reflection of Heaven--Romanesque in Hildesheim,\" exh. cat. no. 4.22c, p. 166.",
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"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, \"When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story\" December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982.",
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"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\"",
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"description": "Albin Chalandon, Lyon; Fr\u00e9derick Spitzer, Paris; (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York).",
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"description": "Once used as decorations for a reliquary shrine, each enamel plaque represents a biblical prophet: Isaiah, Obadiah, Elisha, and Hosea. Fine gold dots punctuate dark blue backgrounds. Typical of Hildesheim enamels, this detailing creates the illusion that the prophets sit against star-studded twilight skies.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William. \"Four Champlev\u00e9 Enamel Panels.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 4 (April 1951): 72-74.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 70; Mentioned: p. 73",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
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"citation": "Kemper, Dorothee, and Clemens M. M. Bayer. Die Hildesheimer Emailarbeiten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts: mit einer kommentierten Edition der Inschriften von Clemens M.M. Bayer. Hildesheim : Bernward Medien, 2020, 251-253",
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