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Thank you to everybody who has responded to this topic. The 14thc Leuven wooden Pieta is now in the Town Museum. Life-sized, it is a remarkable piece of work and well worth seeing. Incidentally, while there I saw a panel painting of the Trinity from the workshop of Rogier van der Weyden. The previous private owner had not liked the dove sitting on Christ's left shoulder and had had the body and head painted out, but the legs and feet remain - most curious. I suppose terminology comes into the discussion of left and right-aligned Pietas. When one considers subjects which are generally called Lamentations, i.e. Pietas with other mourners, such as the Miraflores Altarpiece in Berlin or those by Petrus Christus and Bernard van Orley in Brussels, left alignment appears to be quite common. But left-aligned Pietas, Vesperbilden or Marienklage seem to be pretty rare. I was therefore grateful for the reminded of the Long Melford window because this was an example of the left-aligned BVM and Christ on their own. So I too would be interested to have an answer to Madeleine Gray's question: > most of the left-aligned examples seem to be English - and am I correct in thinking > that most of the English ones are left-aligned? Does anybody know? John Hall Email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%