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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 after The Cloisters , part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which acquired it in 1963.
A red Cross of Saint James with flourished arms, surmounted with an escallop, was the emblem of the twelfth-century Galician and Castillian military Order of Santiago, named after Saint James the Greater. Saint Julian Cross: A Cross Crosslet tilted at 45 degrees with the tops pointing to the 'four corners of the world'.
A crux gemmata (Latin for jewelled cross) is a form of cross typical of Early Christian and Early Medieval art, where the cross, or at least its front side, is principally decorated with jewels. In an actual cross, rather than a painted image of one, the reverse side often has engraved images of the Crucifixion of Jesus or other subjects.
The San Damiano Cross is the large Romanesque rood cross before which St. Francis of Assisi was praying when he is said to have received the commission from the Lord to rebuild the Church. It now hangs in the Basilica of Saint Clare ( Basilica di Santa Chiara ) in Assisi , Italy, with a replica in its original position in the church of San ...
In 2025, the works unbound from copyright cap off the 1920s with literature, characters and more from 1929 entering the public domain.
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In a Dec. 30 statement, the local prosecutor's office said Paiz — referred to by only his initials — had allegedly provided Payne with cocaine twice on Oct. 14 and accepted payment for the ...