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Work Details:

Title:High Altar, Abbey Church of Saint John the Baptist
Creator:Michel Erhart [German, c. 1440 – after 1522] and Bartholome Zeitblom [German, c. 1455 – c. 1520]
Culture/Nationality:German
Style:Late Gothic, Renaissance
Date:completed 1494
Location:Blaubeuren
Medium:wood, paint, gilt
Dimensions:1190 x 805 cm (open)

 
Central shrine
 
Closed
 
Left wing: Nativity
 
Left wing: Nativity
 
Rear of central shrine
 
Right wing: Adoration of the Magi
 
Right wing: Adoration of the Magi
 
Saints Benedict and John the Baptist
 
Superstructure
 
Tracery in central shrine
 
Virgin and Child