What is it about?
The Westminster Retable. A Medieval English Panel Painting housed at Westminster Abbey
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Why is it important?
It is one of only a handful of painted Retables to have survived from the Middle Ages in England. It has some of the finest painting to have survived from England in the Middle Ages. It is painted in oil medium and it dated about c.1269-72
Perspectives
I establish that the painter was working in London, but was almost certainly French based on various iconographical and stylistic arguments.
Dr M A Michael
University of Glasgow
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This page is a summary of: THE BIBLE MORALISÉE, THE GOLDEN LEGEND AND THE SALVATOR MUNDI: OBSERVATIONS ON THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE WESTMINSTER RETABLE, The Antiquaries Journal, March 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0003581514000018.
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