A theatre box in wood, the Sopetrán Lamentation is a stunning 15th-century sculpture from Spain.
Location: The Met Cloisters
Images of the side wound and the mystical tradition from which they emerge have provided fertile material for scholars engaged in “queering” the Middle Ages.
Jean le Noir, Bourgot (?), and workshop, ...
A Netherlandish artist, a Middle Eastern apostle, a Spanish queen, and a New York museum.
A Renaissance St. James as pilgrim
What a camel in New York reveals about medieval Spain.
Camel from San Baudelio de Berlanga
An Early Byzantine sculpture of a woman with a scroll at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Woman with Scroll
Roll over Bellini, and tell Tintoretto the news. The Renaissance in Spain.
St. Michael defeats the devil in Renaissance ...
Flashed or stained? Discover the historical techniques required to produce—and restore—this vibrant glass painting.
The conservator’s eye: a stained glass Adoration ...
This is a creature so pure it can’t be caught—maybe that’s why the meaning of the tapestry eludes us.
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