Adoration of the Magi (interior); The Flowering of Joseph's Rod and Marriage of the Virgin (exterior)

The oldest of the three kings has set his crown on the ground and kneels to kiss the Child's foot. The second king is lifting the crown from his own head, and the youngest, with long curls, waits holding a golden vessel. Their followers crowd in under banners, one bearing a crescent moon, a common sign in paintings of the time for people from the East. Joseph stands at the edge behind Mary. This is one face of a movable altar wing painted around 1460 on Swiss stone pine and still in its original frame. The other side tells how Mary was given in marriage. According to the legend, the unmarried men of David's line each laid a rod on the altar of the Temple, and the man whose rod burst into flower would be her husband. Joseph's did.