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Painted box, The Met Cloisters, New York, USA

Painted wooden box with scenes of the capture of Orange, detail, French, c. 1200-25, in The Cloisters, a museum specialising in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. The box depicts the adventures of William, count of Toulouse and a relative of Charlemagne, who became Saint Guilhem, founder of the monastery of Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Painted wooden box with scenes of the capture of Orange, detail, French, c. 1200-25, in The Cloisters, a museum specialising in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. The box depicts the adventures of William, count of Toulouse and a relative of Charlemagne, who became Saint Guilhem, founder of the monastery of Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen