Ah yes, thank you!
Beth Williamson
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:32:27 +0100 Anna Sander <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> There is a picture of these 2 figures in Caroline Walker Bynum's
> _Fragmentation and Redemption_ as well.
>
> Anna Sander
>
> "Dr BA Williamson, Department of History of Art" wrote:
>
> >
> > Not strictly on the subject of reliquaries, but it may be of interest
> > to Margaret Cormack (who, I think, was working on visibility of body
> > parts more generally as well):
> >
> > there are examples of statues of the Virgin and St Elizabeth at the
> > Visitation, in which the womb of each woman is crystal, allowing the
> > child to be seen. One is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (sorry,
> > can't think of an easily-accessible reproduction at the moment), and
> > another is in Nuremberg (see Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nurnberg:
> > Fuhrer durch di Sammlungen, Munich, 1977, p. 58, no. 137).
> >
> > Beth Williamson
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> > Dr BA Williamson,
> > Department of History of Art
> > University of Bristol
> > 36 Tyndalls Park Road
> > Bristol, BS8 1PL
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Dr BA Williamson,
Department of History of Art
University of Bristol
36 Tyndalls Park Road
Bristol, BS8 1PL
+ 44 (0)117 928 8591
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