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This is a mosaic panel in the Santa Croce in Gerusalemme church in Rome depicting the Man of Sorrows.

This is a bronze/copper alloy lamp/censer with five scenes from the life of Christ: the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Baptism, the Crucifixion, and the Women at the Tomb.

This is an Italian fresco (later transferred to canvas) painted by Niccolò di Tommaso around the year 1370 depicting the Man of Sorrows.

This is an illuminated B in a German psalter from roughly 1265. It contains the Man of Sorrows and King David playing the harp.

This illuminated O from an early 1300s Silesian Antiphony contains the Man of Sorrows.

Produced in 989 under the rule of Basil II, this struck silver coin is devoid of any depiction of the ruler. The emperor is honored in the text, but the only image is of the Virgin and Child. The population of those who could read the text would have…

A Byzantine Lead Seal. On the obverse of the seal a cross potent on three steps, all arms ending in pellets; on the crossing, in a medallion, the bust of a bishop (without nimbus): square bald head, short round beard. He wears the phelonion and…

A Byzantine Lead Seal with a Sphinx facing right on the obverse five lines which can be read as

This is a fourteenth-century panel painting by Maso di Banco of Florence. It formed the right side of an altarpiece that was located in a Franciscan church. It depicts the Franciscan St. Anthony staring at what would be the central panel of the…

This is a fourteenth-century panel painting by Lippo Memmi of Siena. It formed part of an altarpiece that was located in the church of San Francesco in San Gimignano. It depicts St. Clare holding a lamp in one hand, which was her symbol.