We Are Just Three Pilgrims, The Sequel

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French
Three Pilgrims
wall paintings in the apse of the priory church
early 14th century
SE France, nr Conques: Villeneuve d'Aveyron

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Spanish, from Navarre
Medieval Pilgrim's Bridge
11th Century
Navarra: Puente de la Reina

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Spanish Romanesque, from Castile
Collegiate Church of San Isidoro el Real
begun late 11th Century
consecrated 1149
Castile region, Spain: Leon

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• excerpt from the Codex Calixtinus (pilgrim’s guide): “Hereafter, in the city of León, one ought to pay a visit to the venerable remains of the Blessed Isidore, bishop, confessor, and doctor, who established a most pious rule for ecclesiastical clerics, infused the Hispanic nation with his doctrines, and decorated the entire holy Church with the flower of his writings.”

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Master of Isidoro
Annunciation to the Shepherds
painted ceiling of Royal Pantheon
1167-75 or 1181-88
Léon: Collegiate Church of San Isidoro el Real, lower level

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Muslim artisans in the Royal Workshop of Palermo
Coronation Mantle of Holy Roman Emperors,
made for the Norman King Roger II of Sicily
1133-34
orig. Sicily: Palermo
now Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum

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• inscribed (in Arabic): “This is what was made in the royal treasury. Full happiness, honor, good fortune, perfection, long life, profit, welcome, prosperity, generosity, splendor, glory, perfection, realization of aspirations and hopes, of delights of days and nights, without end or modification, with might, care, sponsorship, protection, happiness, well-being (success), triumph, and sufficiency. In Palermo (Madinah Siquliyah) in the year 528 (1133-34).”
Mosan (modern Belgium)
Reliquary Arm
ca. 1230
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection

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Mosan (modern Belgium)
Reliquary Arm
ca. 1230
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection

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Carolingian
Reliquary casket
ca. 780
orig. Germany: church of Enger
Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz

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French, from Limoges
Reliquary
ca. 1200–1220
champlevé enamel on copper
NYC: Metropolitan Museum

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inscribed on the lid) S[ANCTUS]IACOB[US] (Saint James); IH[E]S[US] (Jesus).

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Spanish, from Castile
Cantiga 104: “The Bleeding Host”
1254-80
page from the Cantigas de Santa Maria,fol. 83r
El Escorial (Madrid prov): Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial

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Miracles of the Virgin Mary collected by Alfonso X el Sabio of Castile (Alfonso the Learned)

neighbors council a woman to steal the eucharistic wafer to make a love potion to win over her lover

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Spanish, from Castile
Cantiga 56: “The Monk who Recites Five Psalms Daily”
1254-80
page from the Cantigas de Santa Maria,fol. 83r
El Escorial (Madrid prov): Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial

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when a monk who prayed daily to the Virgin dies, a branch with five roses emerge from his mouth

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French, from Auvergne
Virgin and Child in Majesty
second half 12th century (1150–1200)
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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French
Virgin and Child in Majesty
ca. 1200
Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne: church of Saint-Pierre

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German
Pietà
1375-1400
polychromed wood, 52 ½ in. H
New York: Metropolitan Museum

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Bohemian
Schönemadonn (“Beautiful Virgin”)
1400
polychromed wood
Dusseldorf: Kunstmuseum

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German, from Nuremberg
Virgin and Child
ca. 1425-30
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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French, from Auvergne
Virgin and Child in Majesty
fourth quarter 12th century (1175-1200)
Paris: Musée national du Moyen Age/Thermes de Cluny

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French, from Paris
Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreux
1339
orig. Paris: Abbey of St.-Denis
now Paris: Musée du Louvre

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commissioned by queen Jeanne d’Evreux as a gift for the Abbey of St.-Denis

contains strands of the Virgin’s hair (mounted in the scepter), semi-reliquary

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French, from Paris
Standing Virgin and Child
1260-80
ivory
orig. Paris: Abbey of St.-Denis
now Cincinnati: Taft Museum

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German
“Chapelle Cardon”
First quarter 15th century
Paris: Musée du Louvre

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Jean le Tavernier
Philip III the Good at Mass
page from the Traite sur l’oraison dominicale
post-1457
Brussels: Bibliothèque Royale Albert I

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French, from Paris
Mary of Burgundy at her Devotions
page from the Hours of Mary of Burgundy
(codex Vindobonensis)
before 1482
orig. collection of Mary of Burgundy
now Vienna: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

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French, court Rayonnant style
Penitence, Devotion, Contemplation, Rewarded with a Mystical Vision
ca. 1290
orig. France: Royal Abbey of Maubuisson
now London: British Library, fol. 29r

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Jean Pucelle
The Taking of Christ (Betrayal and Arrest) & the Annunciation
pages from the Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, fol. 15v and 16r
ca. 1325-38
orig. Paris: royal collection
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection

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marriage gift from Charles IV to a very young Jeanne d’Evreaux

Annunciation accompanies Psalm 51: Domine labia mea aperies (“O Lord, open my lips”) and contains an historiated initial D shows Jeanne reading. This indicates that the illuminations are not illustrations but personal visions inspired by the prayerbook

The Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus includes a bas-de-page (bottom marginal element) of goats jousting

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Limbourg Brothers (Jean, Herman, and Pol)
The Très Riches Heures of the Duke de Berry
1411-16
orig. collection of John of France, Duke of Berry (1340-1416) (brother of the king)
now Chantilly, France: Musée Condé

Great Litany: Procession of Pope Gregory I in Rome, fol. 71v-72r

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Limbourg Brothers (Jean, Herman, and Pol)
The Très Riches Heures of the Duke de Berry
1411-16
orig. collection of John of France, Duke of Berry (1340-1416) (brother of the king)
now Chantilly, France: Musée Condé

calendar pages: June, Mowing (showing the Palais de la Cité, with the Sainte Chapelle)

calendar pages: October, Tilling and Sowing (showing the medieval Palais du Louvre)

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Carolingian
Reliquary of Sainte-Foi (Saint Faith)
ca. 985-1000, with gothic additions
Conques, SW France: Abbey of Sainte-Foy de Conques (church)

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Flemish
Charter of the Abbey of Herkenrode
showing a Procession of the Holy Sacrament (Eucharistic Wafer)
1373
orig. where: Abbey of Herkenrode (Benedictine nuns)
now Sint-Truiden, Belgium: Provincial Museum for Religious Art

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Romanesque
Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
built ca. 1070-1120
NW Spain: Santiago de Compostela

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under architect Bernard the Elder and patrons bishops Diego Peláez + Diego Gelmírez
embellished ca. 1160 to 1217
under architect Master Mateo and patron Fernando II of León, including the Portico de la Gloria
restored 1738-50
under architect Fernando Casas y Nóvoa, including the baroque façade

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Maestro Mateo (Master Matthew), sculptor
Pórtico de la Gloria (“Glory portal”)
west façade of the Cathedral of Santiago
1168-88
NW Spain: Santiago de Compostela

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once an outdoor portal under a deep porch

now enclosed behind the baroque façade of 1738-50

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Spanish, from Castile
Puerta de Platerías (“Plaza of the Silver-workers door”)
south transept doorway to the Cathedral of Santiago
built in the late 12th c.
NW Spain: Santiago de Compostela

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reusing carvings from the original west façade removed to build the Gloria portal