”We’re seeing in the angels what we see in one another when we’re in difficult times.”
Curator Barbara Boehm on this twelfth-century plaque with censing angels.
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Barbara Drake Boehm
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Contributors
Barbara Drake Boehm
Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior Curator for The Met Cloisters
Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior Curator for The Met Cloisters
Photography by Anne-Marie Kellen
Art Mentioned
French
ca. 1170–80
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