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Preferred term

Invention of the True Cross  

Entry terms

  • DISCOVERY AND PROOF OF THE TRUE CROSS (INVENTION OF THE TRUE CROSS)
  • EMPRESS HELENA DISCOVERING THE TRUE CROSS
  • EXALTATION OF THE TRUE CROSS
  • Finding of the True Cross
  • HELENA DISCOVERING THE TRUE CROSS
  • HELENA, MOTHER OF CONSTANTINE, DISCOVERING THE TRUE CROSS
  • INVENTION AND EXALTATION OF THE TRUE CROSS
  • INVENTION OF THE CROSS
  • MIRACLE OF THE TRUE CROSS
  • S. HELENA FINDING THE TRUE CROSS

Note

  • Specific artist: Aachen, Hans von, 1552-1615
  • Specific artist: Antoniazzo Romano, act.1452, d. before 1512
  • Specific artist: Grassi, Nicola, 1682-1748
  • Specific artist: Hirsch, Emile, 1832-1904
  • Specific artist: Procaccini, Camillo, 1561-1629
  • Specific artist relationship: attributed to
  • Specific artist: Ricci, Sebastiano, 1659-1734
  • Specific date: 1586-87
  • Specific date: 1735-1740
  • Specific date: 1735-40
  • Specific date: ca.1492
  • Specific location: Amberg Oberpf. (DEU), S. Martin
  • Specific location: Marly-le-Roi (FRA), S. Vigor
  • Specific location: Riva San Vitale (CHE), S. Croce
  • Specific location: Roma (ITA), S. Croce in Gerusalemme
  • Specific location: Salzburg (AUT), Residenzgalerie
  • Specific medium: frescoes
  • Specific medium: painting
  • Specific medium: stained glass
  • Specific note: private collection

Scope note

  • includes: the discovery; the "proof" (aka miracle), showing which of 3 crosses is the true one by raising a man from the dead by touching him with it; and the exaltation and procession

Notation

  • 269467
  • 269468
  • 269469
  • 269470
  • 269471
  • 269472
  • 269473
  • 311708

In other languages

  • French

  • EXALTATION DE LA VRAIE CROIX
  • HELENE, MERE DE CONSTANTIN, TROUVANT LA VRAIE CROIX
  • INVENTION DE LA CROIX PAR SAINTE HELENE
  • INVENTION ET EXALTATION DE LA VRAIE CROIX
  • L'IMPERATRICE HELENE DECOUVRANT LA VRAIE CROIX
  • SAINTE HELENE TROUVANT LA VRAIE CROIX

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/HTR-B0NMTVP4-6

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