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Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art

Anne de Bretagne,Queen of France, commissioned thisprayer book for her son Charles-Orland in c. 1494 On display in a splendid exhibition called “Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art” until September 2 are 65 of the some 1,300 medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts belonging to New York’s Morgan Library. Here illuminating means [...]

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