Category: Art

(Here attributed to) Chicart Bailly, pendant to a rosary or chaplet (two sides) (Paris, France(?), 1500–30), elephant ivory with traces of polychromy (Founders Society Purchase, General Art Purchase Fund, Insurance Recovery Fund, David L. Klein, Jr. Memorial Foundation, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Fund, Henry Ford II Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton Fund for Medieval Art, with additional funds from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit)

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Memento Mori at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

This exhibit on the culture surrounding death in the Renaissance looks fantastic! From the Bowdoin Museum website: “This exhibition represents a significant contribution to our

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