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Detail of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Cloisters, Sept. 2007

Detail of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Cloisters, Sept. 2007
Nativity of the Virgin
Lindenwood and polychromy
Germany, Lower Franconia, ca. 1480
From a church at Ebern, Bavaria (Unterfranken), north of Bamberg

Accession # 56.211

An unusual subject for sculpture, the reclining St. Anne with the infant Virgin may have belonged to the predella under the central scene of a large altarpiece dedicated to the Virgin.

Text from the Cloisters label.

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