David Ghirlandaio, The Marriage of the Virgin



Circa 1479
Tempera and gold on wood

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 13.119.1
Francis L. Leland Fund, 1913

This is one of three panels set in a single frame.  The others are The Burial of St. Zenobius and Tobias and the Angel.

More of Mary's birth, childhood, marriage

Photographed at the Metropolitan by Richard Stracke