This work is a Spanish illumination made in 1180 in gold, tempura, and ink on parchment from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was disassembled from the original book binding i…| Sight+Signs
The woodcut by Michael Ostendorfer of the Pilgrimage to the New Church at Regensburg, made around the year 1519, preserves the memory of the medieval performance of votive dedication. Devotees wou…| Sight+Signs
This beautifully painted manuscript is a Hungarian breviary made for Domonkos KaIlmaIncsehi, named bishop of Oradea in 1495. It was made by Francesco de Castello in c. 1474. A breviary is a manus…| Sight+Signs
This is a sculpture titled Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Sandaled Right Foot at the Met. It is a composite object which has been repurposed, or “spoliated.” It is an example of the complicated na…| Sight+Signs
The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is one of the most widely known and studied Medieval manuscripts. Its pages are frequently used to introduce Medieval art to students as it maintains its stat…| Sight+Signs
Game pieces offered sculptors a limitless opportunity in the Middle Ages. Although there are excellent examples of game pieces of all types, chess sets in particular provide fascinating, bea…| Sight+Signs
This beautiful gilded sculpture from the Metropolitan Museum of Art comes from the Dominican convent of Katherinethal in present day Switzerland. It depicts the Visitation of Mary (on the left hand…| Sight+Signs
We all know that cats on the internet pose a serious threat to users attempting to do work. The exponential proliferation of cat imagery is a daunting task to sort through for anyone, and frequentl…| Sight+Signs
This Beautiful ivory roundel from the Louvre depicts a common late Medieval scene of knights attacking a structure identified as the castle of love. The scenes in ivory depicted here resemble this…| Sight+Signs
The miniature crib known as the Crib of the Infant Jesus presented in a solitary plexiglas case at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is a fascinating work deserving of attention which it r…| Sight+Signs
