Prague, Czech Republic. 6th November 2014. A visitor examines a Romanesque reliquary procession cross during a press preview to the exhibition The Benedictines in the Heart of Europe in the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic. The exhibition entitled Open the Gate of Paradise presents an excellent selection of early medieval artefacts from year 800 to 1300. This reliquary procession cross from Roudnice was made in Prague or Swabia in the middle of the 12th century and now belongs to the Lobkowicz Collection.


Prague, Czech Republic. 6th November 2014. A visitor examines a Romanesque reliquary procession cross during a press preview to the exhibition The Benedictines in the Heart of Europe in the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic. The exhibition entitled Open the Gate of Paradise presents an excellent selection of early medieval artefacts from year 800 to 1300. This reliquary procession cross from Roudnice was made in Prague or Swabia in the middle of the 12th century and now belongs to the Lobkowicz Collection. The exhibition runs till March 15, 2015, in the Waldstein Riding School. © Vova Pomortzeff/Alamy Live News


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