Our cover illustration shows the Madonna of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, Bruges. Said to be the only work of Michelangelo to leave Italy in his lifetime, it was made for the cathedral of Siena in 1501. Two merchants (Jan and Alexaner Moscroen) brought it to Bruges after one of their business trips to Italy in 1506. Testimony to the wealth of the city's cloth-working and banking fraternities at the beginning of the sixteenth century, it is situated in the Blessed Sacrament chapel.