The Met Cloisters, New York, USA
Blessing Bishop (centre), St Nicholas of Bari, Italian Gothic sculpture from Umbria, c. 1350a"75, 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 statue is in painted and gilded wood, and the bishop wears a mitre and a robe with a black orphrey ornamented with a series of quatrefoils and folded drapery forms. On the left is the Adoration of the Shepherds, 1374, by Bartolo di Fredi, active 1353-1410, central altarpiece panel, tempera with gilt on wood, from the Convent of SS Annunziata in San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy. The Cloisters collection includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance works from 12th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen
