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The Main Retable at Oviedo Cathedral: Detail, the Baptism of Christ

This sculpture presents what is only the lower section of most Baptism of Christ images, leaving to one's imagination and memory the dove that is traditionally shown descending from the Father.

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