Detail of Rogier van der Weyden, Polyptych of the Nativity: The Prophecy of the Sibyl

This panel of the Weyden polyptych pictures Augustus and the Sibyl gazing through a window on the day of Christ's birth and seeing a vision of a mother and child within a bright sun.

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