Sacred Art & Iconography
King Louis IX Carrying the Crown of Thorns (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 37.173.3)
Stained glass, pot-metal glass and vitreous paint, French, ca. 1245 to 1248, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, 37.173.3
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A stained glass panel titled "King Louis IX Carrying the Crown of Thorns," French, ca. 1245 to 1248, showing the king bearing the relic he purchased from the debt-ridden Latin emperor at Constantinople, the same acquisition that led him to build the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris to hold it. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, under accession 37.173.3.
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The Met's own title for this panel names the subject outright, showing the king carrying the Crown of Thorns he brought to Paris and enshrined in the Sainte-Chapelle.
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