The mystic waves of the 14th century were largely nourished by the meditations on the suffering of Christ. Art at the end of the century owes its taste for the many scenes on the Passion of Christ to these meditations. They were everywhere. They were staged in theatre, hung in churches, at crossroads, and even in private houses. More than ever, this surge of emotional piety demanded sentimentalised images on the tragedy of Christ and the Virgin (for example, the Pieta of the Récollets). Similarly, images of the great figures of Christianity proliferated, such as Saint Francis. The sculptural masterpiece from the end of the Middle Ages in Toulouse, is a famous Virgin and child, the "Nostre Dame de Grasse", thus named in an inscription in gothic characters, coming loose at her feet on either side of an illegible shield. In fact, the background, date (second or third quarter of the 15thcentury?) and author of this work remains a mystery. Was the original aspect of the drapery and attitude of this exceptional sculpture one of the signs of the new times arriving in Toulouse as it was in the rest of Europe? Indeed, the second half of the 15th century marks the beginnings of a new golden age for Toulouse and whose trade in pastel works was flourishing. Gothic art reached a peak of expressiveness, of which Saint Michael overcoming the demon from the Saint-Michel church in Toulouse is a fine example.