This Renaissance altarpiece, from the church of Vera Cruz de Valderas and made during the second third of the 16th century, is composed of gilded, polychrome masonry and richly decorated with grotesques and candelieri motifs. Through a succession of pilasters and entablatures, the complex is organized into four sections with three streets. Only the central street of the second body houses a round image of the Virgin and Child , while the rest are occupied by pictorial panels in which, on a group of six apostles that makes up the lower floor, episodes of the cycles of the Infancy of Jesus and the Virgin Mary , as well as a group of three panels on the upper floor with images of the Passion.

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