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"title": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"description": "Paris, Mus\u00e9e des Art D\u00e9coratifs \"Chefs d'oeuvres de la curiosit\u00e9 du monde\" 1954: no. 266, pl. 120.",
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"description": "This ivory plaque represents a full-length figure of Christ flanked by bust-length portraits of the twelve apostles, six in a vertical column on each side. With his large eyes fixed on the beholder and his mouth slightly open, Christ seems about to speak to the apostles, charging them with the mission of preaching the Gospel to the world. The plaque may originally have formed the central decoration of a precious Gospel book cover that may have looked much like the one Christ carries in this image.",
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"citation": "Wixom, William D. \u201cAn Ottonian Ivory Book Cover.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 9 (November 1968): 275\u2013289.",
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