St. Margaret of Antioch, North-East France last quarter of the 15th century
Chiselled limestone with polychrome residue
64 × 47 × 35 cm
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This sculpture constitutes one of the best-preserved and highest-quality examples of a type of representation that was very common between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Renaissance in northern France: the image of St. Margaret miraculously climbing out of the dragon’s belly.