Mandorla

Drop I · MMXXVI

Hoodies cut from the masters’ plates.

Six saints, each taken from a single work on record in a museum print room: artist, date, collection, object number. Michael is the Schongauer engraving shown here; the other five are held to the same standard.

Martin Schongauer’s engraving of St. Michael: the archangel in robes, wings spread, driving a long spear into the dragon beneath his feet.
Martin Schongauer · Colmar ca. 1435/50 – Breisach 1491 St. Michael, 1470–91. Engraving, 16.2 × 11.3 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934. Object 34.38.2. This plate, restored, is the back print of the Michael hoodie.

The first six

  • MichaelIII·KAL·OCT
  • ThérèseKAL·OCT
  • FrancisIV·NON·OCT
  • GeorgeIX·KAL·MAI
  • Catherine of SienaIII·KAL·MAI
  • Joan of ArcIII·KAL·IVN

Feast days given in the Roman reckoning.

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