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The Crucifixion

ca. 1100
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 304
This medallion, probably from a book cover, can be securely attributed to the celebrated pilgrimage abbey of Conques, France’s richest surviving repository of medieval goldsmiths’ work. Among the rare works dispersed from its treasury in the nineteenth century, several share a distinctive technique, style, and palette uniquely combined during the abbacy of Bégon III in the late eleventh century. The monkgoldsmiths have here superimposed copper plaques, the lower one set with cloisons (wires) that define features and drapery, and the upper one cut to define the silhouettes of the figures and the cross.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Crucifixion
  • Date: ca. 1100
  • Geography: Made in Conques, France
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: Gilded copper, cloisonné and champlevé enamel
  • Dimensions: Overall: 4 1/16 x 1/8 in. (10.3 x 0.3 cm)
  • Classification: Enamels-Champlevé & Cloisonné
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Michel David-Weill Gift and 2006 Benefit Fund, 2007
  • Object Number: 2007.189
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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