Different Hands:

A recently acquired late fourteenth-century boxwood micro-sculpture of a monk in a pulpit is in fact an extremely rare example of a late medieval inkwell. The object’s unusual iconography seems at first to be mocking in intent, given the awkward way in which the monk, arms upraised and missing his...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frits Scholten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Rijksmuseum Publications Department 2019-06-01
Series:The Rijksmuseum Bulletin
Online Access:https://bulletin.rijksmuseum.nl/article/view/9723