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The Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle is an ivory sculpture probably created in the 1260s, currently in the possession of the Louvre Museum in Paris.The museum itself describes it as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse [in the round] ivory carving ever made", [1] and the finest individual work of art in the wave of ivory sculpture coming out of Paris in the 13th and ...
Images of the Virgin and Child were for centuries the most common subject for Christian religious art. There are many thousands of surviving historical images. The following is a list (probably incomplete) of those with articles, listed by their usual type of title (although other title forms may be found).
The Virgin and Laughing Child, also called The Virgin with the laughing Child, or generally abbreviated as another of many depictions of the Virgin and Child, [1] is a statuette originating in Florence and was made circa 1460. [1] It is a terracotta figure of the Virgin Mary carrying the laughing child Jesus Christ. [1]
The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (or Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara) is a c. 1480 oil-on-oak painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Virgin Mary sits on a throne in a garden holding the Child Jesus in her lap.
Robert Campin, The Virgin and Child before a Firescreen, c. 1430, National Gallery, London. The panel is the smallest extant work by van der Weyden [2] and follows the tradition of a Madonna Lactans, with significant differences. Christ is dressed in a red garment, as opposed to the swaddling he usually wears in 15th-century Virgin and Child ...
The work is part of a series of sacred conversations in a landscape, dating back more or less to the same years made by Titian. In the Edinburgh canvas too, the pictorial space is divided into two asymmetrical halves, one dominated by shadow and other by an open landscape; in the foreground, the luminous figures of the Virgin and Child stand out, between the two saints arranged around her with ...
It is a rare English example of this type, similar contemporary statuettes are more common in French art. Yet it is of the highest quality; the art historian William Wixom wrote that "the face is exquisitely rendered, the slight twist of the figure is subtle and eloquent, as the Virgin turns to the Child, and the deep drapery folds, some paper ...
[3] [6] Both believe Dürer produced the drawing as a study for his 1506 watercolor, The Virgin with a Multitude of Animals. [6] Fritz Koreny, a former curator at the Albertina and a current researcher at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna, attributes the drawing to Hans Baldung. [1] Baldung was a student of Dürer.