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Panels reunited: Curator Dillian Gordon and Martin Wyld, Head of Conservation, explain how the two pieces of the Umbrian Diptych – The Virgin and Child and The Man of Sorrows – were brought together at the Gallery

 

From the National Gallery Podcast: Episode Twenty Three (September 2008)

 

View and zoom in on an image of the two panels reunited in Italian, Umbrian, Umbrian Diptych, about 1260

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