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MEMLING, Hans: St Ursula Shrine

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

Golden panels unfold St. Ursula's legendary pilgrimage in exquisite miniature detail, painted with Flemish precision. Memling's shrine-reliquary merges devotional object and narrative artwork, making it revolutionary—functional veneration transformed into visual storytelling that defined Northern Renaissance innovation.

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