On October 14th and 15th we were back in the Met, doing the Medieval tour and back-filling some other areas we had visited earlier. Of course we had already seen a good deal of the Met's Medieval collection up at the Cloisters...the Met's impressive collection of aquamaniles will require a separate post...
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| Hunting with a Hawk, south Netherlands, 1513 |
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| Madonna and Child, south somewhere, Medieval |
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| Life and Miracles of St. Godelieve, Master of the St. Godelieve series, Netherlandish, late 15th, oil on panel |
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| St. Bridget de Bardot, Master of Soebeck, walnut, late 15th |
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| Bishop John Fisher, Pietro Torrigiano, early 16th; polychrome terracotta; Fisher was beheaded by Henry VIII for not going along with the divorce/remarriage scheme; Torrigiano was the guy who cold-cocked Michaelangelo, thus permanently disfiguring the latter's nose |
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| Hunters in a Landscape, Swiss/English, mid-16th |
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| Interesting detail thereof |
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| Silver flagons, John Blackwell, silver, mid-17th; perhaps we had drifted out of the Medieval section... |
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| Scene from the Legend of St. Vincent of Saragossa, from the lady chapel of the church at St. Germain de Pres, Paris, mid-13th |
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| Pilgrim's badge for visiting shrine of St. Thomas, Canterbury, 13th or 14th |
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| Up closer: sort of like Disney pins...collect the whole set and you get into the Lightning Lane to heaven |
