Exhibition · 375 works
African & Global Heritage
Objects crossing regions, rituals, materials, and inherited ways of seeing.
This is the room that demands the most humility. Museum categories carry the history of collecting inside them: old borders, translated names, missing makers, and cultures compressed into a single line.
The works belong here as points of departure, not representatives of entire traditions. Follow each object back to its source record. Notice the material, the named place, the gaps, and the questions the record has not yet learned to ask.
375Total works290Cleveland67The Met18SMK
On the walls
The hanging.
Twenty-four representative works balanced across source institutions. Search the full exhibition by title, maker, material, object number, or keyword.
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Prayer book with case (mahdar)
La sainte famille
Descent from the Cross
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Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)
Flugten til Egypten. Pladen oprindelig af Hercules Segers med Tobias og englen
The Passion: Christ Bearing the Cross
The Passion: The Crucifixion
Pendant with the Virgin and Child
Shrine of the Annunciation, Nazareth
Christ on the Cross
It Is a Skull Wreathed with Roses. It Dominates a Woman's Torso of Pearly Whiteness
Monstrance with the "Paten of Saint Bernward"
The Passion: Christ on the Cross
Male Figure
Saint Andrew
St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata
The Crucifixion
Christ Carrying the Cross
Processional Cross
Miniature from a Mariegola: The Flagellation
Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket
Altarpiece with The Passion of Christ
