August: Reaping Wheat , “Da Costa Hours,” Belgium, Ghent, ca. 1515, illuminated by Simon Bening, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.399, fol. 9v, purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910. Image courtesy of Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz/ Austria....

A Very Rare Medieval Cross Pendant, Russian, circa 1550. Image courtesy Romanov Russia. This large gilded silver and enamel eight pointed cross pendant is from the reign of Czar Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584). The cross is covered with a thick layer of...

Holy thorn reliquary, Paris, France. About 130 - 97. Gold, enamel, rock crystal, pearls, rubies, sapphires. © The Trustees of the British Museum. LONDON.- This major exhibition brings together for the first time some of the finest sacred treasures of...

Stained glass panel from the cloister of the Abbey of Mariawald depicting Esau giving up his Birthright. German, 1521. Museum No. C.120-1945 LONDON.- The V&A’s new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries opened, housing one of the world’s most remarkable collections...

A Bridal Pair, 1400s, South German, Oil on panel, 30 ½ x 20 1/16 x 2 15/16 in. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds. NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will open Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum...