Portable Altar of Countess Gertrude, c. 1045. German, Lower Saxony. Gold, cloisonné enamel, red porphyry, gems, pearls, niello, oak; 10.5 x 27.5 x 21 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.462.a-b.

CLEVELAND.- Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA)’s first traveling exhibition to showcase a significant number of the Museum’s Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval art in Europe, travels from Munich, Germany and opens at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on October 30, 2007 and runs through January 20, 2008.

Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art offers a unique and unprecedented opportunity to view CMA’s celebrated collection (including pieces of the Guelph Treasure) of Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval art. Visitors can explore aspects of artistic patronage, gifts and gift-giving, public and private devotion, courtly life, and medieval warfare. Some of these objects are traveling for the first time since they were acquired by the CMA in the 1920s through the 1940s.

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