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Preferred term

Enclosed garden altarpieces  

Definition

  • Small, sometimes winged, altarpieces, generally used for private devotions; an elaborately flowered garden surrounds sculpted figures in scenes from the Old or New Testaments (Daniel in the lions' den, the Crucifixion); other devotional scenes (the hortus conclusus, the so-called S. Anne Trinity); or saints; the wings, if any, are painted

Entry terms

  • Besloten hofjes, altarpieces
  • Hortus conclusus altarpieces

Notation

  • 119730

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-D3WFZJDD-2

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