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"title": "Panel from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances",
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"title": "The Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World",
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"description": "Among the most lavish and deluxe products of French ivory workshops of the 1300s were large caskets carved with elaborate scenes drawn from courtly romances. The panel shown here comes from such a casket. This side panel depicts scenes such as the fountain of youth and the unicorn hunt. These images suggesting chivalry, fertility, virginity, youth, and an idealized courtly love likely derive from manuscripts including the Roman de la Rose and the poems of Chr\u00e9tien de Troyes. Such texts were often found within the libraries of the aristocracy, so the casket\u2019s symbolic images would have been readily understood. Such caskets may have originally been gifts between a man and a woman. The expense of the material, ivory, suggests they were produced for an elite, aristocratic clientele.",
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"citation": "Wixom, William D. \"Eleven Additions to the Medieval Collection.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 3 (1979).",
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"citation": "Wixom, William. \"A Glimpse at the Fountains of the Middle Ages.\" Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 8 (2003): 6-23.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 17",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 188-189, no. 67",
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"citation": "Cohen, Meredith. \"The Bestiary beyond the Book.\" In Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World. Elizabeth Morrison and Larisa Grollemond, eds. pp. 177 - 225. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019.",
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"citation": "Mikolic, Amanda. Hunting for a Unicorn Horn: Narwhal Tusks in Medieval Monsters. The Cleveland Museum of Art The Thinker Blog on Medium, September 6, 2019.",
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Petersberg : Michael Imhof Verlag, 2021.",
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