Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by subject type]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication
4. Visual Works
5. visual works
6. visual works by function
7. religious visual works

Anotations

Scope note:

Distinctive Christian visual works having the hortus conclusus (enclosed garden) iconographical theme; best known from the late medieval period through the 17th century, often in female monastic settings. They typically took the form of low-relief panels or assemblages, for example with a central sculpture and elaborate wax flowers, embroidery work. They portrayed the Virgin Mary or other sacred figure surrounded by flowers and plants. They developed in the southern Netherlands, but were found in northwestern Germany and elsewhere.