Altarpiece of Santa Maria la Blanca
Nativity, with the Virgin breastfeeding the Christ child in a bed, St Joseph and animals eating at the manger, relief, detail from the altarpiece of Santa Maria la Blanca, by a workshop of alabaster sculptors based at the monastery in the 14th century, at the Monestir Sant Joan de les Abadesses, in San Juan de las Abadesas, Ripolles, Catalonia, Spain. The monastery was founded in 885 by Guifre el Pilos, or count Wilfred the Hairy, originally as a female monastery, for his daughter Emma. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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