Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Wednesday, 25 March 2026

Reassembling the Altenburg altarpiece


Staying with the theme of statues of Our Lady on this Feast of the Annunciation the Städel Museum in Frankfort recently succeeded to bringing back together the component parts of the Altenburg altarpiece. This lovely piece is dated to the 1320s and originated in the Praenonstratensian monastery for canonesses at Altenburg in what is now western Hesse. It was broken up about a hundred years ago, but has now happily been reassembled and is on display in Frankfort.
 

Medieval Histories has another account which can be viewed at The Altenberg Madonna

The website of the Städel itself about the altarpiece can be seen at Altenberg Madonna acquired for the Städel

Wikipedia has a brief note about the abbey at /Altenberg_Abbey,_Solms


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