The Aachen Cathedral Treasury ("Aachener Domschatz") is one of the largest and most important treasuries of medieval Christian artworks in Europe. The treasury has over a hundred works that are exhibited in a museum adjacent to the Aachen Cathedral – the monumental church of Charlemagne, which together with the treasury was added to the first UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in 1978.


Panel paintings

with depictions of the life of Virgin Mary
Master of the Life of Virgin Mary in Agachen, Cologne, ca 1485

Detail: there is an elephant in the backdrop