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Northern French or Netherlandish
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Enthusiasm for embarking on Crusade waned during the fourteenth century, notwithstanding the the tight links drawn between belief in the True Cross and in the Crucifixion of Jesus, here witnessed not only by his mother Mary and Saint John (much effaced), but by a knight and his lady.
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Title: Scene from the Legend of the True Cross
Date: second half 14th century
Culture: Northern French or Netherlandish
Medium: Stone
Dimensions: Overall: 19 1/2 x 27 3/4 in. (49.5 x 70.5 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925
Object Number: 25.120.529
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