Scene from the Legend of the True Cross

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second half 14th century · Stone · The Cloisters

Enthusiasm for embarking on Crusade waned during the fourteenth century, notwithstanding the the tight links drawn between belief in the True Cross and in the Crucifixion of Jesus, here witnessed not only by his mother Mary and Saint John (much effaced), but by a knight and his lady.

Artist

Unknown

Date

second half 14th century

Medium

Stone

Culture

Northern French or Netherlandish

Department

The Cloisters

Credit line

The Cloisters Collection, 1925