#1240s

Detached leaf from a manuscript produced ca. 1240, depicting the arrival of the Magi to greet the infant Jesus and the Virgin Mary, who sits enthroned and crowned. The central figure points to the star that guided the three men to Bethlehem. Now in the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Hall and stained glass windows inside Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, completed in 1248.

Chalice, German, 1230-50

Biel Experience

Illustrations from Liber divinorum operum, c. 1240

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

For goingpostale’s Medieval Britain request

Illustrations from the Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris, compiled between 1240 and 1253