# Cross

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-english-r284e2b7eeda404/cross-r61f1c328428019>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, English](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-english-r284e2b7eeda404>)
- Date: 1151-1200
- Technique: Walrus ivory with traces of polychromy, 58 x 36 cm

## Commentary

This ivory cross is assembled from five pieces of walrus ivory and is carved on both sides with more than 100 figures and 60 inscriptions in Latin and Greek. It was probably produced in at the Abbey of Bury Saint Edmunds in eastern England, a thriving monastic centre in the 12th century. This front view shows the cross as the Tree of Life.

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- [An Allegory of the Tudor Succession: The Family of Henry VIII](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-english-r284e2b7eeda404/an-allegory-of-the-tudor-succession-the-family-of-henry-viii-rc7c29cd5e973ad>)
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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)