Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece

Where did this go?

The miter was part of the collection of the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter in Salzburg, Austria for many years. In 1933, the owners and leaders of the church sold religious textiles to Adolfo Loewi. Loewi was a German and Jewish art dealer specializing in textiles, and he put the work he collected, probably including this miter, in a gallery in Venice. After five years of ownership, Loewi ended up selling the pieces to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts in 1938, where the miter is stored with companion textiles. Many other vestments from this church can be found in other museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Abegg Stiftung collection.
 

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