# Goldene-Madonna-Essen

- By: Tuxyso
- Date: 2025-02-01
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldene-Madonna-Essen.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/3/32/Goldene-Madonna-Essen.jpg/1920px-Goldene-Madonna-Essen.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Golden Madonna of Essen part of the Essen Cathedral Treasury, Dated around the year 980, it is both the oldest known sculpture of the Madonna and the oldest free-standing medieval sculpture north of the Alps