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Miniature Altarpiece with the Crucifixion (MA 17.1690.453) is a very small and complex (15 × 7.6 × 3.2 cm) early 16th century Netherlandish microcarved miniature sculpture in boxwood, now in The Cloisters, New York. The central carvings of the upper triptych show the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, each outer wing contains two scenes from the biblical Old Testament. The complex base contains a round carving which opens like a boxwood prayer nut.

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  • Miniature Altarpiece with the Crucifixion (MA 17.1690.453) is a very small and complex (15 × 7.6 × 3.2 cm) early 16th century Netherlandish microcarved miniature sculpture in boxwood, now in The Cloisters, New York. The central carvings of the upper triptych show the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, each outer wing contains two scenes from the biblical Old Testament. The complex base contains a round carving which opens like a boxwood prayer nut. Works of this type are extremely rare, and because of this piece's layered structure, extremely fragile. Only about 150 Gothic boxwood miniatures survive; and of these only some twenty are multi-panel, i.e. triptych or diptychs like altarpieces. This piece was acquired by The Cloisters in 1917 as part of the J. Pierpont Morgan donation. Until 1906 it had been in the collection of Baron Albert Oppenheim, Cologne. (en)
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  • Left wing with Abraham and Samson (en)
  • Right wing with Moses and Jonah (en)
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  • Miniature Altarpiece with the Crucifixion (MA 17.1690.453) is a very small and complex (15 × 7.6 × 3.2 cm) early 16th century Netherlandish microcarved miniature sculpture in boxwood, now in The Cloisters, New York. The central carvings of the upper triptych show the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, each outer wing contains two scenes from the biblical Old Testament. The complex base contains a round carving which opens like a boxwood prayer nut. (en)
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  • Miniature Altarpiece with the Crucifixion (en)
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