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To emphasize the restorative nature of the body of Christ, the artist who made this tabernacle door engaged with common metaphors describing the cross as a living plant and equating Christ’s flesh and blood with the fruit, sap, and resin produced by trees. With the shallow relief of the cross receding into the panel, Christ and the wood are conflated into a tree of life bursting with exuberant decoration.\n","remarks":"EUR1_02-05_WLA-Day 1 Cataloguing "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"\n
\n\tRobert Piloty, Würzberg (1863-1926), by 1902.[1]\n
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\n\tMathias Komor, New York (1909-1984);\n
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\n\tGift of the Friends of the Museum (purchased from the above). [2]\n