In this latest mailout, we look at some new material on the Middle Ages which has recently been added to the archive.

akg-images photographer Tristan Lafranchis has been photographing medieval architecture, sculpture and painting since 1987, primarily to illustrate his papers on history and tourism published in French and Italian magazines. From 1989 to 1992 he lived and worked in Italy and now lives in Greece where he can combine his passions for art and wildlife.

We present a selection of Lafranchis' wonderful material on the medieval world.

The credit for every image on this page is "Photo: akg-images / Tristan Lafranchis"

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Victims of the plague are carried away as a mother weeps
in this detail from the frescos at Chapelle Saint-Clair, France

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Messengers reach Pope Sylvester I in this 1246 fresco from Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome

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Demons from a 12th or 13th-century relief in the Cathedral in Piacenza, Italy

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Thomas Aquinas as teacher, 14th Century,
Santa Maria di Piano church in Loreto Apruntino, Italy

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Details from one of the ciborium by the sculptors Ruggero and Roberto in the San Clemente al Vomano church, Guardia Vomano, Italy

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Stefano Porro and his wife presents a model of a church to St. Stephen in this fresco, c.1370, in Lentate sul Sèveso, Lombardy, Italy

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Feeding the hungry in a 14th-century fresco
in Parma Baptistry, Italy

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The Archangel Raphael, in a 14th Century fresco in San Zeno Maggiore, Verona, Italy

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The creation of Eve, a 12th-century relief on the portal of San Zeno Maggiore, Verona, Italy

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A late 13th-century fresco of the baptism of Christ,
San Zeno Maggiore, Verona, Italy

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Mary bids farewell to the apostles in a late 15th-century fresco by Andrea Delitio, Atri Cathedral, Abruzzi, Italy

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A shop arrives outside rome, in a fresco by Master Paolo and his son Filippo, from the 2nd half of the 13th Century, in San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Rome, Italy

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Saint Adalbert of Prague from a 12th Century relief on a fountain
in the San Bartolomeo all'Isola Church, Rome, Italy

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Saint Juvenal, Bishop of Narni, on a relief, 1497, from San Giovenale, Orvieto, Italy

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The Damned fall off a bridge into Hell in a detail fom a fresco showing the Last Judgement at Santa Maria in Piano, Loreto Aprutino, Italy

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The "Madonna Bianca", mid-14th Century,
San Zeno Maggiore, Verona, Italy

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A detail of grooms and horses from the 13th-century wall paintings in the cathedral in Atri

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Knights duelling with clubs in a 12th-century floor mosaic from San Savino church in Piacenza, Italy

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A rooster from the 15th-century choir stalls by
Fra Giovanni da Verona, Santa Maria in Organo,
Verona, Italy

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The Holy Trinity, as seen in a 15th-century fresco in Atri Cathedral, Italy

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Saint George and the dragon, San Zeno Maggiore, Verona, Italy

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Saint Luke paints the Madonna in a fresco by Andrea Delitio,
c.1477-81, Atri Cathedral, Italy

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