The ‘Descent from the Cross’ was carved from a single block of oak in 1520. The group are the Virgin Mary, St John, and Mary Magdalene, Joseph of Arimathea, and a Holy Woman. I find this a very disturbing and painfully realistic statue.
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Notre Dame de Lampaul-Guimiliau
Other Pièta statues in Brittany
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