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

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

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

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

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

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

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

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

16. Sacrifice of Isaac
Crucifixion
Two Israelite spies bringing grapes from
Canaan

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

18. Baptism of Christ

19. Queen of Sheba before King Solomon