Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Gothic Art in the Cleveland Museum

St. Lawrence by Tilman Riemenschneider, c. 1505

St. Catherine with a kneeling donor, Melle, France, 1400s.

Mourner from the tomb of Philip the Bold of Burgundy, by Claus de Werve, 1404-1410. These are famous works that toured the country a few years ago as "The Gothic Mourners"; I saw them in Richmond.


Set of medieval medallions (Paris, c. 1400) mounted on a modern chain as a necklace. The medallions were likely part of a woman's headdress.


St. John the Baptist, Netherlandish, c. 1500, attributed to Jan Crocq.


Monstrance, c. 1190.

Mourning Virgin, c. 1600

Panel from an ivory casket, c. 1350


And a "table fountain" for serving wine, c. 1320-1340, a very rare and remarkable work, the sort of thing Edward II would have had on his table during the banquet scene in The Raven and the Crown.

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