A sensational exhibition of medieval alabaster sculptures, curated by Gerhard Lutz, opened yesterday at the Cleveland Museum of Art. At the core of the show is the CMA’s masterpiece by Tilman Riemenschneider, Saint Jerome and the Lion, produced for the Benedictine abbey church of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany, depicting a legend in which Jerome kindly removes a thorn from a lion’s paw. The exhibition reunites Saint Jerome with another Riemenschneider work from the same church in Erfurt, the alabaster statuette The Virgin Mary of the Annunciation in the collection of the Louvre. The dazzling catalogue features contributions by some of the leading scholars on medieval sculpture, and includes not only Professor Elina Gertsman’s essay, but also lengthy entries by several of our graduate students, namely Reed O’Mara on the mourner from the tomb of John the Fearless (pp. 120-27), Sam Truman and Angie Verduci on the Philip the Bold tomb’s mourners (pp. 106-119), and Alex Kaczenski on the CMA’s enthroned Virgin and Child (pp. 154-57). The show is open until July 23.