The National Gallery in London is unveiling an early renaissance painting this weekend that’s considered to be a European masterpiece. The gallery paid $20 million for “The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret.” As Host Carolyn Beeler explains, the altarpiece came from a church in what was called “the low countries”, or modern-day Belgium.
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