Scenes from the Life of the Virgin, ca. 1500, Made in Strasbourg, Alsace, present-day France, Upper Rhenish, Linen warp; wool, linen, silk, silver, and gilt wefts; wool pile yarns, 41 x 138 in. (104. 1 x 350. 5 cm), Textiles-Tapestries, Mary, the mother of Jesus, was the focus of intense veneration in the late Middle Ages. Possibly created as an altar frontal, this hanging depicts scenes from her life: her Birth, the Annunciation, the Visitation with her cousin Elizabeth (mother of John the Baptist), the Nativity of Jesus, the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, and her Coronation by the Trinity