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Painted panel in several scenes: a woman tends a sick person in a red-curtained bed, monks surround a bier in a church, and angels hover over a figure at right.

St Elisabeth tending the sick in Warburg; death of St Elisabeth

A late-15th-century painted panel divided into several scenes: a sick woman tended in a curtained bed at lower left, and a crowd in fashionable dress at lower center. Above, monks gather around a draped bier in a church, while angels with spread wings hover over a small figure at right.

Artist
Master of the St Elizabeth Panels
Date
1490-1495
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3444 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1495.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Saints and MartyrsNatural History15th centurygothic architecturenetherlandish paintinglate 15th centuryreligious artangelsmonksaltarpiece panelred curtainmedieval panel paintingdeath scene

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