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Work Details:

Title:High Altar, Church of Saint Michael
Creator:Master H. L. [German, active 1511 – 1526]
Culture/Nationality:German
Style:Late Gothic, Renaissance
Date:c. 1520
Location:Niederrotweil am Kaiserstuhl
Medium:wood
Dimensions:320 x 460 cm

 
Baptism of Christ
 
Central shrine: Coronation of the Virgin
 
Christ and the Archangel Michael
 
God the Father and John the Baptist
 
Left wing: Saint Michael weighing souls and the Baptism of Christ
 
Right wing: Beheading of John the Baptist and the Fall of the Rebel Angels