New Mining the Collection Video
Crusades and Canivet: Curious Treasures from the Walters Art Museum
Lynley Anne Herbert, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts & Curatorial Chair, Christine Sciacca, Curator of European Art, 300–1400 CE
Introduced and Moderated by Evan Freeman, Former ICMA Coordinator for Digital Engagement
The De Bar Hours (W.93) and Male Figure, so-called Crusader (54.558)
Nearly a century after its founding, the Walters Art Museum continues to be a place of remarkable discovery, with tantalizingly strange objects haunting the storage shelves. Dr. Lynley Anne Herbert, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts & Curatorial Chair, and Dr. Christine Sciacca, Curator of European Art, 300-1400 CE, explore two mysterious medieval oddities: a bronze figure of unknown origin possibly representing a crusader, and a lace-cut manuscript with no known precedent.
The video can be watched on the Mining the Collection page.