Metalwork, Embroidery, and Other “Minor” Arts, 1050–1200

“FINE” ARTS: painting, sculpture, architecture “MINOR”, “DECORATIVE” or “APPLIED” ARTS: metalwork, enameling, embroidery etc.

Stavelot Triptych, commissioned by Abbot Wibald of Stavelot, Belgium, mid-12th century

Two Byzantine triptychs, late 11th or early 12th century

Byzantine pendant with the bust of Saint George, 13th-14th century Two Types of Enamel Champlevé Cloisonné Vision/Dream of Emperor Constantine, Stavelot Triptych, mid-12th century Byzantine pendant with the bust of Saint George, 13th-14th century

Head Reliquary of St. Alexander, from the Stavelot Abbey, Belgium, 1145

Reliquary statue of Sainte-Foy, late 10th to early 11th century with later additions; gold, silver gilt, jewels, and cameos over a wooden core, Conques, France

Nicholas of Verdun and followers, Reliquary of the Three Magi/Kings, from Cologne Cathedral, Germany, begun ca. 1190

Engraved gem with the Coronation of Emperor Nero, mid-1st century CE Engraved gem with the pagan deities Venus and Mars, 1st century CE

Nicholas of Verdun, Klosterneuburg Altarpiece (originally a pulpit made for the Klosterneuburg Abbey near Vienna, Austria), 1181 (refashioned after 1330)

I register: Ante legem (“Before the Law”) II register: Sub gratia (“Under grace”) III register: Sub lege (“Under the Law”)

Sacrifice of Isaac Crucifixion Two Israelite spies bringing grapes from Canaan

Crossing of the Red Sea Baptism of Christ Basin on the backs of 12 oxen from the Temple of Solomon

Baptism of Christ

Queen of Sheba before King Solomon