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Crowning of a tabernacle
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This relief once crowned a tabernacle, a wall cupboard near the altar in which the host was stored. The Virgin and Child are flanked left and right by the holy abbots Benedict of Nursia and Bernard of Clairvaux, the founders of the Benedictine and the Cistercian orders. This relief was probably made for a monastery of one of these orders.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineBekroning van een tabernakel. c. 1520. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
