Cleveland Museum of Art
Processional Cross
Pietro VanniniLinkedCulture matchlcp-3fe18798441f
- Date
- c. 1440–50
- Medium
- silver, gilt-silver, and repoussé, over wood
- Culture
- Italy, The Marches, 15th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 108537
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This remarkable object, meant to be carried in religious processions within a great church, is an example of the high level of skill achieved by 15th-century Italian silversmiths. The cross was made from hammered, chased, and gilded sheets of silver attached to a wooden core. The figures are made in repoussé, a technique of hammering the silver from beneath to create a design. On the front of the cross is the figure of Christ flanked by the seated Virgin and Saint John, with God the Father blessing from above. The back of the cross includes the figure of Christ in Majesty at the center, with the Evangelists at the end of each arm.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?-1926: (Luigi Grassi, Florence, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1926-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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