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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).
Unlike traditional representations of the "Trinitarian Saint Anne", which are generally mere symbolic images, the painter offers a true narrative, depicted "like a family genre scene in which a grandmother and her daughter observe the seemingly innocent play of the Child", whose purpose is to reveal God's goal: the sacrifice of his son for the ...
The Virgin and Child are shown accompanied by the saints Stephen, Jerome, and Maurice. [2] Gronau thinks that this picture may belong to the period about 1508 to 1510. [2] The Louvre dates it to between 1510 and 1525. [1] The type of the Virgin here is like the one in the Madrid Sacra Conversazione and the Annunciation in Treviso. [3]
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is an unfinished oil painting by High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1501–1519. [n 1] It depicts Saint Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. [1]
The adoration of the Child is staged in a rural landscape with a predominantly horizontal development. Mary is at the centre praying towards her son, on her knees, between a group of saints in several poses. From left to right, the adoring saints are Francis of Assisi, Jerome and Anthony Abbot. [2]
The Virgin and Child with Saints Stephen, Jerome and Maurice (German: Maria mit Kind und den Hll. Stephanus, Hieronymus und Mauritius ), also called the Virgin with Three Saints , is a religious painting by Titian which hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
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The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Saints: An authoritative visual guide to the lives and works of over 500 saints, with expert commentary and over 500 beautiful paintings, statues & icons. Lorenz Books. ISBN 978-0-7548-1854-0.