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The Virgin and the Child
Victoria & Albert Museum
The Virgin and the Child
About 1520 - 1525, Germany, Bavaria, painted limewood
Decorated with equal attention to the front and back, and with metal fixings on the top of her head, this figure was suspended from the vault of a church. Its theatricality was not unusual in German churches of this period.
The biblical book of Revelation describes a woman, commonly associated with the Virgin, standing on a crescent moon and wearing a crown with twelve stars. This figure was originally crowned, possibly with a metal crown with glass or enamel decoration.
The Virgin and the Child
Victoria & Albert Museum
The Virgin and the Child
About 1520 - 1525, Germany, Bavaria, painted limewood
Decorated with equal attention to the front and back, and with metal fixings on the top of her head, this figure was suspended from the vault of a church. Its theatricality was not unusual in German churches of this period.
The biblical book of Revelation describes a woman, commonly associated with the Virgin, standing on a crescent moon and wearing a crown with twelve stars. This figure was originally crowned, possibly with a metal crown with glass or enamel decoration.