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437 Results Found

Image	Title of Work of Art	Artist or Culture of Origin	Date or Style or Period	Materials and Techniques	Accession Number	Collection
	Crozier Head		ca. 1350	Ivory	17.190.164	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	Crozier with Serpent Devouring a Flower		ca. 1200–1220	Gilded copper; champlevé enamel; glass c...	17.190.833	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	The Crucified Christ		ca. 1300	Walrus ivory with traces of paint and gi...	2005.274	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	The Cloisters Collection, 2005
	Crucifix		1180–1230	Wood with traces of paint	47.100.54	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Fletcher Fund, 1947
	Crucifix		second half of 12th century	Cross: red pine, polychromy, textured gi...	35.36a,b	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1935
	The Crucifixion	Master of the Codex of Saint George	14th century	Tempera on wood, tooled gold ground	61.200.1	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	The Cloisters Collection, 1961
	The Cuxa Cloister		mid–12th century	Marble	25.120.398	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	The Cloisters Collection, 1925
	The Dead Christ with the Virgin, Saint John, and Angels		ca. 1390–1405	Opaque and translucent enamel on gold	17.190.913	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)	Workshop of Master Tilman	late 15th century	Oak	1973.348	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	The Cloisters Collection, 1973 (1973.348)
	Deep Dish (brasero)		ca. 1430	Tin-enamelled earthenware	56.171.162	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	The Cloisters Collection, 1956
	Diadem		1200–800 B.C.; Bronze Age	Copper alloy	2000.281.1	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Purchase, Caroline Howard Hyman Gift, in memory of Margaret English Fraser, 2000
	Diadem		400–450	Sheet gold worked in repoussé	98.11.67	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Purchase, 1898
	Diptych with the Last Judgment and Coronation of the Virgin		ca. 1250–1270	Elephant ivory	1970.324.7ab	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	The Cloisters Collection, 1970
	Diptych with Scenes from Christ's Passion		ca. 1350–75	Ivory with metal mounts	50.195	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Rogers Fund, 1950
	Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection		1300–1325	Silver gilt with translucent and opaque ...	1980.366	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Gift of Ruth Blumka, 1980
	Diptych with Scenes of the Life of Christ and the Virgin, Saint Michael, John the Baptist, Thomas Be...		ca. 1350	Ivory	1970.324.8a,b	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	The Cloisters Collection, 1970
	Dish in the Form of a Temple		3rd–5th century	Rock crystal	55.135.5	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Bequest of Ada Small Moore, 1955
	Disk Brooch		650–725	Gold sheet with filigree and inlays of g...	17.191.134	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	Disk Brooch		675–700	Gold sheet with filigree and inlays of g...	17.193.83	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	Disk Brooch with Cameo and Cabochons		brooch ca. 600, cameo 100–300	Gold sheet; settings of onyx, cameo, gla...	95.15.101	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Purchase, 1895
	Disk Brooch, Two Pendants		early 600s; Anglo–Saxon	Gold, cells inset with garnets and glass...	1987.90.1-3	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1987
	Doorway		carved in the 1000s, assembled in 1100s or 1200s	Marble	47.100.45	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Fletcher Fund, 1947
	Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean		ca. 1250	Limestone with traces of polychromy	32.147	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	The Cloisters Collection, 1932
	Double Capital		mid–12th century	Marble	28.81	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Rogers Fund, 1928
	Double Cup		1300–1350	Silver and gilt-silver with applied opaq...	1983.125ab	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	The Cloisters Collection, 1983
	Double Cup	Caspar Beutmüller the Elder	ca. 1590–1600	Gilded silver	17.190.609a,b	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	Double-Sided Gospel Leaf		first half of 14th century	Tempera on parchment	2006.100	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Purchase, Oscar de la Renta Ltd. Gift, 2005
	Double-Sided Pendant Icon with the Virgin and Christ Pantokrator		ca. 1080–1120; Byzantine	Cloisonné enamel, gold	1994.403	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994
	Dragonesque Brooch		1st century	Bronze with champlevé enamel	1980.450	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Rogers Fund, 1980
	Earrings		mid–1st century A.D.	Gold, sardonyx	22.50.5,.6	Medieval Art and The Cloisters
	Rogers Fund, 1922

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