Juan de Villanueva y Barbales
St. Anne
1739-42
Cathedral of St. Savior, Oviedo, Spain
The statue is without attributes, but is easily identified by its context: Anne and Joachim flank the statue of the Virgin Mary as Immaculate Conception (shown below). The parents were often pictured in Renaissance images of the Immaculate Conception (Ekserdjian, 243-52).
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Read more about St. Anne, St. Joachim, and the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Photographed at the cathedral by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.