What 

do you see?  What does it mean?  How can you tell?  What did the maker want you to do?     

Altar 

Cross  Constantinople  6th century   

What 

strikes you first about  this object?  What do the materials tell you about it?  What does the shape tell you about it?  How is it different from other crosses you have seen?  What does that difference suggest?  What is important about this cross?  What did the maker want you to think when you see it?  What did the maker want you to feel?  How did he accomplish that?

Is 

the cross a good  thing?     

Gero’s 

cross  Cologne  900 

• How  is this cross different  from the preceding one?
• How does the presence of the figure of

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