Roque de Balduque, The Caceres Altarpiece: Detail, the Coronation of the Virgin Mary

1547-51
Cáceres Cathedral, Cáceres, Spain

The crown itself has been removed from the altarpiece. In Coronation images it is usually the Son alone who crowns his mother, but a few are like this one in having the Father and Son together place the crown on her head while the Holy Spirit hovers overhead in the pediment:

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Photographed at the site by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.