"Medieval art is very much about a multi-media experience."
Curator C. Griffith Mann on the painting "Saint Michael" by Master of Belmonte.
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This altar piece embodies the culture of storytelling in the Middle Ages
"Medieval art is very much about a multi-media experience."
C. Griffith Mann
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C. Griffith Mann
Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
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Master of Belmonte
1450–1500