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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_the_Andes" class="extiw" title="en:Crown of the Andes">Crown of the Andes</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votive_crown" class="extiw" title="en:Votive crown">votive crown</a> originally made for a larger than life-size statue of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(Mother_of_Jesus)" class="extiw" title="en:Mary (Mother of Jesus)">Virgin Mary</a> in the Cathedral of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Popay%C3%A1n" title="Popayán">Popayán</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>. It contains 450 emeralds, including some that were purportedly taken from the captured <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_Empire" class="extiw" title="en:Inca Empire">Inca</a> Emperor <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atahualpa" title="Atahualpa">Atahualpa</a> (1497–1533). This photograph is one of the many released by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under a CC-0 license, which has been a boon to free images of 3D works of art.</div>
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Unknown author<span style="display: none;">Unknown author</span></div>
circa 1660 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div> (diadem) and ca. 1770 (arches)
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