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MEMLING, Hans: St Ursula Shrine

🖼 St Ursula Shrine, 1489
Gilded and painted woodx 91 cm
87 × 33 cm
Bruges, Belgium

Intricate gilt panels reveal St. Ursula's legendary voyage and martyrdom in luminous Flemish detail. Memling's reliquary shrine merges devotional function with narrative brilliance, establishing the portable altarpiece as Northern Europe's defining artistic form.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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