Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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Explore the history of Saint Nicholas, how he came to inspire the modern myth of Santa Claus, and how the punchwork of this detailed 14th century panel helped attribute the work to Giovanni Bonsi, a leading innovator in fourteenth-century Florence.

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