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ALTARPIECE OF THE INFANCY OF CHRIST
Nativity- The Adoration of the Child is the main motif of the triptych.
© J. Muñiz Petralanda
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General view of the altarpiece
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The triptych in the exposition of the centenary of the Cathedral in 1921
© Archivo Fotográfico del IES Conde Diego de Porcelos (Burgos)
Hermitage of the Virgin of las Eras
© Ayuntamiento de Santibañez Zarzaguda
The parish seen from the square
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North side of the temple
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Interior of the Church
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Main chapel
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Large amount of figures crowd together in the group of the Circumcision
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Watery treatment of the beard and big hands of St. Joseph
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Curly hair of the archangel St. Gabriel
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Detail of the royal courship
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Oppened triptych
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The triptych mostly closed
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The frame of the attic conserves fragments of traceries
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The Anunciation
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Nativity-Adoration
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Circumcision
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Piece of the God the Holy Father on the upper attic
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Hinge located on the upper part of the altarpiece that allows the attic to be folded down over the case.
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The forms of the attic are adapted to the arch while closing the altarpiece.
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The altarpiece with the attic and the left wing closed
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Closed altarpiece
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Gilt continuous applied brocade with certain details picked out in green glaze
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Non gilt continuous applied brocade with certain details picked out in black and blue
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Burnished gold and silver leaf in the garments
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Sirver leaf in the tunic whose glaze's colour has almost entirely disappeared
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The foreground relief and important elements from the sheeps have disappeard
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Upper part of God the Father is missing because of the attack of xylophagous insects
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Re-polychromy
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Re-polychromy
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