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A growing collection of medieval objects selected for close looking. Filter by museum location or recorded place of origin. Every record links to its museum source and identifies image rights.

Exploring Cleveland Museum of Art

Museum location is where the collection is held. Origin / culture follows the museum’s record.

38 objects · 1 museum collection · image rights on each record

Arms of the Cistercian Order at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Arms of the Cistercian Order

Unknown maker · 1547

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Hunting Wild Boars (recto) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Hunting Wild Boars (recto)

Unknown maker · c. 1500–1510

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for May (recto) and Calendar Page for June (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for May (recto) and Calendar Page for June (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)

Unknown maker · c. 1510

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque: Simon and Thaddaeus at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Plaque: Simon and Thaddaeus

Unknown maker · c. 1160

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque: Thomas and Matthew at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Plaque: Thomas and Matthew

Unknown maker · c. 1160

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Sts. Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret (recto) and Text (verso) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Sts. Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret (recto) and Text (verso)

Boucicaut Master · c. 1415

Cleveland Museum of Art

Panels at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Panels

Unknown maker · c.1200–1225

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque: The Crucifixion at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Plaque: The Crucifixion

Unknown maker · c. 1345–1365

Cleveland Museum of Art

Roundel with the Annunciation at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Roundel with the Annunciation

Unknown maker · c. 1470

Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment of an Ornamental Crest from a Reliquary Shrine at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Fragment of an Ornamental Crest from a Reliquary Shrine

Unknown maker · c. 1165–1180

Cleveland Museum of Art

Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist (lid) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine

Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist (lid)

Unknown maker · 1300s

Cleveland Museum of Art

Book-Shaped Reliquary at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Ottonian

Book-Shaped Reliquary

The Master of the Registrum Gregorii · c. 1000

Cleveland Museum of Art

Decorative Plaque, Probably from a Reliquary Shrine at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Decorative Plaque, Probably from a Reliquary Shrine

Unknown maker · c. 1200

Cleveland Museum of Art

Enthroned Virgin and Child at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Enthroned Virgin and Child

Unknown maker · c. 1250

Cleveland Museum of Art

Heart-Shaped Panel: Figure of a Woman with a Banderole (Sibyl ?) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Heart-Shaped Panel: Figure of a Woman with a Banderole (Sibyl ?)

Unknown maker · c. 1480–1520

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Last Judgment at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Last Judgment

Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish) · 1430s

Cleveland Museum of Art

Pendant Triptych with an Onyx Cameo of the Nativity at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Pendant Triptych with an Onyx Cameo of the Nativity

Unknown maker · c. 1460–1500; cameo: c. 1250–1300

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque, probably from a Reliquary Shrine at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Plaque, probably from a Reliquary Shrine

Unknown maker · 1225–1250

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Trinity: Leaf from a Gradual with Initial B at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

The Trinity: Leaf from a Gradual with Initial B

Perugino · c. 1496–1502

Cleveland Museum of Art

Heraldic Roundel at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Heraldic Roundel

Unknown maker · 1500s

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross

Unknown maker · c. 1430

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Bible: Initial E: Entwined Lions and Serpents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Leaf from a Bible: Initial E: Entwined Lions and Serpents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves)

Unknown maker · c. 1225–50

Cleveland Museum of Art

Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi" (pair) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi" (pair)

Unknown maker · c. 1220

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket

Master G. Alpais · 1220–25

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing the Crucifixion at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing the Crucifixion

Unknown maker · 1050–1100

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portable Altar at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Portable Altar

Unknown maker · c. 1200–1220

Cleveland Museum of Art

Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Byzantine

Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist

Unknown maker · 1300s

Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque: The Crucifixion and Virgin and Child with Angels at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Plaque: The Crucifixion and Virgin and Child with Angels

Unknown maker · c. 1250–70

Cleveland Museum of Art

The So-called Horn of Saint Blaise at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

The So-called Horn of Saint Blaise

Unknown maker · 1100–1200

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Story of Lucretia at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

The Story of Lucretia

Master of the "Kanis Triptych" (Netherlandish) · c. 1530

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Trinity at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

The Trinity

Laurent Girardin · c. 1460

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso) at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Late Gothic

Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso)

Unknown maker · c. 1524

Cleveland Museum of Art

Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi" at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi"

Unknown maker · c. 1220

Cleveland Museum of Art

Reliquary at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Romanesque

Reliquary

Unknown maker · 1200–1300

Cleveland Museum of Art

Reliquary of the True Cross at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic

Reliquary of the True Cross

Unknown maker · c. 1214

Cleveland Museum of Art

Small alabaster figure of a hooded mourner, face hidden, wrapped in deeply carved folds of cloth

International Gothic

Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy

Claus de Werve · 1404–10

Cleveland Museum of Art

Large gold-ground icon of the Virgin pressing her cheek to the Christ Child, who reaches up towards her face

Byzantine

Icon of the Mother of God and Infant Christ (Virgin Eleousa)

Attributed to Angelos Akotantos · c. 1425–50

Cleveland Museum of Art

Alabaster group of Saint Jerome in a cardinal’s hat bending to draw a thorn from the paw of a lion

Late Gothic

Saint Jerome and the Lion

Tilman Riemenschneider · c. 1495

Cleveland Museum of Art