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Gilded wooden shrine with a crowned figure above a seated haloed figure, flanked by open painted wings with small red and gold narrative scenes.

Shrine of the Virgin

A gilded oak shrine with a crowned female figure above and a seated, haloed figure at center, flanked by two hinged wings. The painted wing panels show small narrative scenes in red, green and gold, including a figure reclining on a bed and gathered figures in robes.

Artist
Unknown
Date
ca. 1300
Medium
Oak, linen covering, polychromy, gilding, gesso
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
1652 × 2000 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1305).
Rights checked 2026-11-04 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

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