Alexandr Radayev

Faith · Art · London · Monarchies · Museums

Angels in lapis-lazuli robes and white chaplets of roses, gathered about the Virgin and Christ Child on the right-hand panel of the Wilton Diptych, the celebrated monument of Gothic panel painting of the late fourteenth century, have become a riddle for a

The principal explanations come down to the personal iconography of King Richard II, who is himself portrayed kneeling on the left-hand panel with his patron saints John the Baptist, Edward the Confessor and Edmund the Martyr. Eleven was the number of gold coins that Richard offered to the Virgin