the marriage of Joachim and Anne, the rejection of Joachim's sacrifice, Joachim's sacrifice of thanksgiving, and Joachim giving alms to the poor on leaving the temple. With both pairs of wings open (on feast days): the carved centrepiece depicts the Death of the Virgin Mary, with the death scene in the centre; above that was a group depicting the Assumption of Mary but it was stolen in 1945; below it is the funeral procession; on the left is the Annunciation, and on the right is Mary's entombment. the carved left wing depicts the birth of Mary at the top and the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple at the bottom, and the carved right wing depicts the Tree of Jesse above, and the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple below. Before 1869, the wings of the predella, which depict the legends of the Holy Kinship were removed, sawn to make panel paintings, and sold. In 1869, two such paintings from the private collection of the mayor of Lübeck were acquired for the collection in what is now St. Anne's Museum. Two more paintings from the outsides of the predella wings were acquired by the (Cultural foundation of Schleswig-Holstein) and have been in St. Anne's Museum since 1988. Of the remaining paintings, two are in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and two are in a private collection in Stockholm. Memorials In the renaissance and baroque periods, the church space contained so many memorials that it became like a hall of fame of the Lübeck gentry. Memorials in the main nave, allowed from 1693, had to be made of wood, for structural reasons, but those in the side naves could also be made of marble. Of the 84 memorials that were still extant in the 20th century, almost all of the wooden ones were destroyed by the air raid of 1942, but 17, mostly stone ones on the walls of the side naves survived, some heavily damaged. Since these were mostly baroque works, they were deliberately ignored in the first phase of reconstruction, restoration beginning in 1973. They give an impression of how richly St. Mary's church was once furnished. The oldest is that of , a mayor who died in 1594, a heraldic design with mediaeval echoes. The memorial to , a former councillor and Hanseatic merchant who died in 1637, is a Dutch work of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque