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Detail of a Female Saint with a Book in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2022

Detail of a Female Saint with a Book in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2022
Title: Female Saint with a Book

Date: ca. 1520

Geography: Made in Calcar, Lower Rhine, Germany

Culture: German

Medium: Oak

Dimensions: Overall: 18 11/16 x 8 1/4 x 6 5/16 in. (47.5 x 20.9 x 16 cm)

Classification: Sculpture-Wood

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Accession Number: 17.190.726

Dressed in fashionable sixteenth-century costume and elaborate headdress, this female saint served as a saintly yet worldly exemplar for the medieval Christian.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464598

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