"One doesn't tend to think of silver plates as being quite as emotionally involving."
Curator Helen Evans on "Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath."
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Why this plate has one of the most cinematic depictions of David and Goliath
"One doesn’t tend to think of silver plates as being quite as emotionally involving."
Helen C. Evans
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Helen C. Evans
Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator Emerita for Byzantine Art, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator Emerita for Byzantine Art, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
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Byzantine
629–30