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    The Cloisters Cross (also known as the Bury St Edmunds Cross), is a complex 12th-century ivory Romanesque altar cross or processional cross. It is named...
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    The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum, situated...
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    Reliquary Cross is a small (29.8 × 12.5 cm) French metalwork sculpture dated c. 1180, now in The Cloisters museum in New York. The reliquary cross is double...
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    the background. The cross is made of black granite from Tijuca forest. Christianity portal Cloisters Cross Christian symbolism Cross necklace Crucifer Crucifix...
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    been credited with having made the ivory Cloisters Cross (or "Bury St Edmunds Cross"), now at The Cloisters, New York. It is not known where Master Hugo...
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    Rockefeller in 1925 as a gift to the Met. The Cloisters are so named on account of the five medieval French cloisters whose salvaged structures were incorporated...
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  • returning plundered works of art to Yugoslavia. In 1963, he sold the Cloisters Cross to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is vividly described by Thomas...
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    elaborate" devotional artworks to do so, at Lincoln Cathedral and the Cloisters Cross, for example, or, more recently identified, the Hereford Mappa Mundi...
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    glass, respectively large and small. Synagoga also appears on the Cloisters Cross, piercing the Lamb. A rare carved misericord at Erfurt Cathedral shows...
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    Romanesque coins are generally not of great aesthetic interest. The Cloisters Cross is an unusually large ivory crucifix, with complex carving including...
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