Saint Bavo - Images

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  • Saint Bavo by Hieronymous Bosch, with both attributes; the purse and falcon, ca.1498-1504, detail from The Last Judgment (Bosch triptych)

  • The conversion of Saint Bavo, Peter Paul Rubens, St Baafs, Ghent.

  • Saint Bavo, ca. 1460. North Netherlandish. Limestone with traces of polychromy. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

  • Saint Bavo saves Haarlem from the Kennemers. Dated 1673 but showing legend from 1274.

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