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MEMLING, Hans: St Ursula Shrine: Figures

🖼 St Ursula Shrine: Figures, 1489
Gilded and painted
Bruges, Belgium

Gilded wooden shrine interior displays intricate narrative scenes in oil, depicting Saint Ursula's legend across multiple panels with jewel-like precision and International Gothic elegance. Memling's masterwork exemplifies Flemish devotional art, combining spiritual storytelling with architectural splendor to inspire pilgrims' veneration in fifteenth-century Bruges.

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