Weyden, Polyptych of the Nativity

Detail: St. John the Baptist

This is the left panel in the closed state of the polyptych. In the open state, the panel reveals the Visitation -- the day when, still in the womb, John leapt up at the approach of the pregnant Virgin Mary.

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Photographed at the Cloisters by Richard Stracke