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...finest works went to German museums eager to recover treasures from the German past and take up the Bonn government on its offer to foot half the cost of their purchases. The State Museum in Berlin paid the top price of the auction: $2,214,000 for a gleaming Mosan medallion made in A.D. 1150 for the Abbey of Stavelot in Belgium. On behalf of the Nuremberg art museum, a London dealer paid $2,029,500 for another 12th century enamel, an arm ornament made for Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's coronation robe...
...caress the bodies underneath, and limbs are proudly and successfully shown as organic entities. Faces become truly alive, eyes shine with an inner light, gestures seem to develop an entirely new expressive poetry of their own." That humanizing influence can be traced in a masterly bronze Moses from the Mosan area of northern France and Belgium, in numerous conceptions of the Virgin Mary as a regal but very real woman, and in a series of strikingly carved stone heads recalling Hellenistic ideals of manhood...
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