Bronze monkeys, Metropolitan Museum of Art
from a show called Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance
August, 2017, New York City
This amazing show used cow equivalents so you could tell how much objects cost relative to one another. The objects cost from 1/12 of a cow, for pilgrim medallions, up to, I believe, 376 cows, a herd of the beasts, for the most costly item in the show. If you click the above link and then View All Exhibition Objects, you can see everything in the show.
There is an ivory carving of the Virgin and Child, and the photo at the Met web site, as well as the several I took, do not do this magnificent object justice. Even their pro photographers couldn't capture the sensation that the Virgin and her draperies are in motion.
Virgin and Child Enthroned
Cow equivalency chart
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