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Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: Seven Angels Hold the Cups of the Seven Last Plagues; The Hymn of the Lamb

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1180 · Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment

Scene from the Legend of the True Cross

Unrecorded maker

second half 14th century · Stone

Relief with Scene from the Legend of the True Cross

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1400 · Marble

Relief with Scene from the Legend of the True Cross

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1400 · Marble

Saint John the Evangelist

Upper Rhine (Switzerland)

ca. 1480 · Pen and blackish brown ink and gray wash over a black chalk underdrawing (still partially visible in the foliate forms of the throne at the upper right), the thin, pale lines of the preliminary ink drawing clearly distinguishable from the thicker, darker ones on top of them, which have dense, felt-like accumulations of tiny strokes in some of the shadows, but are by the same hand; traces of a curved line in black chalk and partly in brush and gray ink in the lower corners and at the upper right.

The Sudarium

Hans Schlaffer of Ulm (d. 1475)

ca. 1470–75 · Hand-colored woodcut

Design for a Crucifix with the Virgin Mary, Saint Mary Magdalen, and Saint John

Polidoro da Caravaggio (d. 1548)

n.d. · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk

The Garden of False Learning from The Table of Cebes

David Kandel (d. 1601)

1550–80 · Wool and silk on canvas (cross stitch, 48-56 per sq. in., 9 per sq. cm; tent stitch, 156-190 per sq. in., 30-36 per sq. cm.)

The Discovery of the True Cross

Bernardo Strozzi (d. 1644)

1599–1644 · Pen and brown ink, over leadpoint or black chalk; framing lines in pen and darker brown ink

Christ bearing the cross

Ferdinando Tacca (d. 1686)

mid-17th century · Bronze

Vision of the True Cross appearing to St. Helen

William Young Ottley (d. 1836)

1795–1836 · Graphite and black chalk

Invention of the True Cross by Saint Helena

Peter van Lint (d. 1690)

ca. 1623 · Engraving