Sunday, November 25, 2018

Walters Art Museum: Medieval Europe and Middle East

One floor up and you find a similar set of galleries covering the next great epoch of history: the Middle Ages.  The way in which the rooms are formed of irregular geometric shapes and how they seem to wrap around one another and open in odd ways to one another gives you a wonderful sense of being the bowels of the castle or cathedral, even catacombs.  The works are predominantly Christian, although there are some works from the Muslim world, as well. 

Tomb Relief of Pierre de Bauffremont
Flemish
after 1453



Exterior of the Altarpiece with Saints Lawrence and Leonard
Spanish
circa 1450


Mourner
Netherlandish
circa 1450

The Annunciation, circa 1515 - 1520
Jean Bellegambe (Flemish)
active 1504-1534

Portrait of King Louis XII of France in Prayer, 1500-1510
Jean Perreal (French), 
circa 1455 - 1530

Tabernacle Door
French
circa 1500

Let All Creation Praise Him
Russian
17th Century (An exception to the Middle Ages time frame)


Virgin and Child
French
1290 - 1310

Man Throwing a Stone
German
circa 1520

The Prophets Habbakuk and Joel
French
Cathedral of Soissons
1200 - 1223


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