Altar Cross with Stand
1140–1150
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
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
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- bronze: cast, gilded, engraved, and chased
- Dimensions
- Overall: 43.4 x 22.5 x 8 cm (17 1/16 x 8 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1944.320
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Religious Art, Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Buffalo, NY, 1964: Albright-Knox Gallery, Religious Art, no.36<br>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<br>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"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 106C Medieval Treasury
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