Tabernacle Polyptych with the Madonna and Child and Scenes from the Life of Christ ca. 1275–1300 Northern France (?) The use of folding shrines in private devotion requires the participation of their owners, who must open the wings in order to contemplate the images. Here, the form is essentially French, but the weightier proportions and architectural elements are more characteristic of northern Tabernacle Polyptych with the Madonna and Child and Scenes from the Life of Christ. Northern France (?). ca. 1275–1300. Ivory with traces of original gilding and polychromy; silver Ivo
Tabernacle Polyptych with the Madonna and Child and Scenes from the Life of Christ ca. 1275–1300 Northern France (?) The use of folding shrines in private devotion requires the participation of their owners, who must open the wings in order to contemplate the images. Here, the form is essentially French, but the weightier proportions and architectural elements are more characteristic of northern Tabernacle Polyptych with the Madonna and Child and Scenes from the Life of Christ. Northern France (?). ca. 1275–1300. Ivory with traces of original gilding and polychromy; silver Ivories
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