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Martin Schongauer

The Battle of St. James the Greater at Clavijo

1470–75
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In this unfinished plate, the shield in the right foreground, the fallen horse at the bottom left, the points on the lances of the soldier in the upper left corner, and the hilly landscape are all details left uncompleted.

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