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Historical Archive: Bread
Representations follow surviving objects.


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Eucharistic bread, Early Byzantine Egypt, KM 1971.02.0250a
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Abraham and the Heavenly Visitors, presbytery mosaic, Ravenna, Church of San Vitale, 527-48. This work has its own interior and exterior pages.
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Communion of the Apostles: Riha paten, silver/gilt/niello, 565-78, DO BZ.1924.5, which has its own page
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Wedding at Cana, on table: life of Christ ivory, c.870, SMBByz 598. For full work and details see Berlin.
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Last Supper, right: gold altar frontal, early 11th c., Aachen cathedral. The altar and cathedral have their own pages.
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feast and dance of Salome, Bernward Column, Hildesheim, c. 1020, bronze, which has its own page with more bread.
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capital with Lazarus and Dives: feast of Dives, limestone, c.1125, MAHSD. For full work see the Saint-Denis museum page.
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Chartres cathedral, choir axial clerestory window 1210-25. For more views see Chartres.
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pretzel: font, copper alloy c.1226, Hildesheim Cathedral. This work has its own page.
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Last Supper: pulpit hanging, linen and silk embroidery on linen, Wienhausen 1325-75, WIEN Hb 3. For full work see WienMus.
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host: Man of Sorrows w. instruments Passion, Niccolo di Pietro Gerini c.1405-06, tempera/panel fr Santissima Annunziata, Florence: Arezzo MS
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Judith and Holofernes, oak choir stalls, 1420, Roskilde cathedral, which has its own page
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host: Man of Sorrows from St. Nicholas church in Brzeg (Brieg), Wrocław 1443, paint on larch wood, MNW Śr. 343. This work has its own page.
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host: Mass of Saint Gregory c.1475, oil on wood, Pedro de Córdoba, IMA 57.82
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Mass of Saint Gregory, IMA, full
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host: Mass of St. Gregory, early 16th c., tempera on pine, Portillo Master (active Palencia 1460-1506), MFAB 85.7
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Mass of St. Gregory, MFAB, full
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St. Mary of Egypt w. loaves of bread, limestone, c.1500-25 Champagne, Reims MSR D.978.31015
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Elizabeth of Hungary w. bread, right: oak altarpiece 1500-25, St. Michael's, Hildesheim, which has its own pages
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host above chalice: Albrecht Altdorfer 1509-18, SS Margaret and Barbara, from altarpiece of St. Sebastian, Abbey of St. Florian
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Albrecht Altdorfer, SS Margaret and Barbara, full
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host: Gabriel shows Daniel the triumph of Ecclesia over Synagoga: Sens cathedral north transept, Jean Hympe the elder and the younger and Tassin Gassot, c.1515-19. This work has its own page.
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baking: Labor for December, enamel 1540-60, Jean de Court (Vigier), UMMA 1977/1.168