A nearly life-sized limewood sculpture of a grieving Virgin. Carved in a French workshop around 1150, the piece was acquired by William Waldorf Astor for Hever Castle.
A nearly life-sized limewood sculpture of a grieving Virgin. Carved in a French workshop around 1150, the piece was acquired by William Waldorf Astor for Hever Castle.
A massive pair of stone lions carved by Romanesque sculptors for a grand portal in Northern Italy. Believed to have been from a group of four, the other pair now resides in the Cloisters Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,
making this occasion the first time in nearly two hundred years that the set is reunited in the same city.
A massive pair of stone lions carved by Romanesque sculptors for a grand portal in Northern Italy. Believed to have been from a group of four, the other pair now resides in the Cloisters Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,
making this occasion the first time in nearly two hundred years that the set is reunited in the same city.
A golden orb made in the 1170s to crown a monumental reliquary shrine in the chapel of Saint Ursula in Cologne. It represents a completely new discovery, having been removed by the city’s Napoleonic occupiers in around 1800
and now recognized as a missing fragment from one of the earliest and most impressive shrines of its type.
A golden orb made in the 1170s to crown a monumental reliquary shrine in the chapel of Saint Ursula in Cologne. It represents a completely new discovery, having been removed by the city’s Napoleonic occupiers in around 1800
and now recognized as a missing fragment from one of the earliest and most impressive shrines of its type.
A monumental stained-glass window, depicting a lavishly dressed donatrix kneeling before two female saints, represents a significant and rare example of female patronage from the Middle Ages. It was made for one of the richest churches of Cologne
in the late 1520s and has endured five hundred years of iconoclasm, bomb damage, and neglect in almost pristine condition.
A limewood relief by the German Renaissance sculptor Hans Leinberger, carved as part of a famous performative and didactic sculpture called the Landshut Marianum in 1516.