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Pictures of the Month

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A fascinating pax certainly commissioned by Jean Le Meingre, Marshal Boucicaut, in Portovenere, near La Spezia...

01 March, 2015
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A graceful Virgin and Child with extensive polychromy now at the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung in Frankfurt...

01 June, 2013
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A beautiful Virgin and Child, carved in the so-called Kremsmünster style, now in the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar...

01 October, 2012
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Just added to the website, this painted tabernacle in remarkable condition kept in the Treasury of Halberstadt Cathedral...

01 August, 2012
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Have a closer look at this elaborate diptych with 'décor de roses' and extensive polychromy now at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille and discover the rest of their collection...

06 October, 2011
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Examine in more detail this 14th-century diptych from the Schwerin Museum, in Northern Germany.

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A beautifully preserved painted casket with secular scenes probably made c. 1400 in Northern Italy, and now at The Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn...

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A new addition to the website, this 16th-century memento mori rosary pendant now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art...

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A new addition to the website, this box made of bone and ebony now in the Museo de Artes Decorativas in Madrid is decorated with scenes from the Life of the Virgin...

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An ivory casket on two registers with no less than 32 scenes illustrating the Life of Christ now at the Musée Dupuy in Toulouse...

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