Christ on the Cross in the Fuentiduena Chapel in the Cloisters, Sept. 2007

Christ on the Cross
The corpus: linden with traces of polychromy
The cross: fir with traces of polychromy
Austria, Tirol or Salzburg, ca. 1125-1150

Accession # 1984. (?)

His eyes open, the living Christ is shown here on the cross symbolizing his victory over death. The Romanesque figure style retains elements of (10th or 11th?) century Ottonian art, especially the tendency to organize the anatomical forms economically, with planar simplicity and and linear clarity.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi
Fresco transferred to canvas
Attributed to the Master of Pedret
Spain, Catalunya (Cataluna), Lleida (Lerida), ca. 1100
From the church of Saint Joan at Tredos

Accession # 50.180 a-c

The imposing fresco, from Saint Joan at Tredos, now mounted in the apse, combines the Adoration of the Magi with a monumental Virgin and Child in Majesty. All the figures are depicted in relative scale according to their hieratic positions. The painting has been attributed to an itinerant artist whose principal work is at Sant Quirze de Pedret. The Lombardic elements in the style and iconography of his works indicate that the Pedret Master may have come from Northern Italy.

Text from the Cloisters label.