Medieval Art and the Contemporary Spirit is at Richard L. Feigen & Co. through February 5.


[The exhibition] will include sculpture, works of art, miniatures and manuscripts. Among the exhibition highlights will be a gilded and polychromed walnut figure of Saint Peter attributed to Claus de Werve and intended for the altar frontal of the “Coronation of the Virgin” at the Cistercian Abbey of Theuley, Franche-Comté; an extraordinary late 12th century carving of Belial, the embodiment of evil, probably from the cathedral pulpit at Calvi Vecchia, near Capua; a prayerbook made for Giangaleazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan, illuminated by Pietro da Pavio, with additional decoration for Francesco Sforza, fourth Duke of Milan, by Belbello da Pavio, made in Pavia or Milan c. 1390 and c. 1455; and a monumental gradual made for the Benedictine Olivetans of Lombardy, illuminated by the Olivetan Master and the Master of the Lodi Choir Books and preserved in its original early fifteenth-century binding.