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