St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read – (Nottingham Workshop) Previous Next


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Date: 1400

Size: 91 x 35 cm

Museum: National Museum of Ancient Art (Lisbon, Portugal)

Technique: Sculpture

This piece belongs to the MNAA’s collection of mediaeval English alabasters, consisting of fifteen plaques and six sculpted figures. Mass produced by the workshops of the Midlands, a region that had Nottingham at its centre, these images were imported in significant quantities, in a cultural context that saw Portugal drawing closer to England, a tendency that was rendered official by the marriage between Dom João I and Philippa of Lancaster in 1387.

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