‘Bringing The Holy Land Home’
Photographic composite showing roundels surrounded by partial Latin text in the show “Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece” in the Iris and B. Cantor Art Gallery, at The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, through April 6.
— Photo © Janis Desmarais and Amanda Luyster.
The gallery says that the exhibition is focused on “the famed Chertsy Combat Tiles, a series of tiles that was created around 1250 forChertsey Abbey, in England. This exhibit includes artwork on loan from the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the (Boston) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The tiles are put into context alongside Islamic and Byzantine artwork that lends a wider view to the historical works.’’