There is a picture of these 2 figures in Caroline Walker Bynum's
_Fragmentation and Redemption_ as well.
Anna Sander
"Dr BA Williamson, Department of History of Art" wrote:
>
> Not strictly on the subject of reliquaries, but it may be of interest
> to Margaret Cormack (who, I think, was working on visibility of body
> parts more generally as well):
>
> there are examples of statues of the Virgin and St Elizabeth at the
> Visitation, in which the womb of each woman is crystal, allowing the
> child to be seen. One is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (sorry,
> can't think of an easily-accessible reproduction at the moment), and
> another is in Nuremberg (see Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nurnberg:
> Fuhrer durch di Sammlungen, Munich, 1977, p. 58, no. 137).
>
> Beth Williamson
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> University of Bristol
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