Detail of NEAPOLITAN NATIVITY SCENE Museo Nacional de Escultura Policromada National Museum of Polychrome Sculpture Valladolid

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Detail of NEAPOLITAN NATIVITY SCENE Museo Nacional de Escultura Policromada National Museum of Polychrome Sculpture Valladolid Spain This section shows a group of minstrels playing music musical instruments with a woman Instruments include lyre harp guitar tambourine The complete display comprises 620 items collected over years by the Garcia de Castro family and acquired by the Spanish State in 1996 There are a total of 184 human figures and a wealth of rich detail made by a technique using various materials including flexible wire hemp carved wood baked clay worked by the finest sculptors Scenes depicted include a market place inn dance dancing street beggars tavern shepherd court animals and more A supreme example of this type of polychrome art NEAPOLITAN NATIVITY SCENE NATIONAL MUSEUM SPAIN

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Size: 3454px × 5200px
Location: Museo Nacional de Escultura Policromada National Museum of Polychrome Sculpture Valladolid
Photo credit: © David Keith Jones / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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