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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 ...
A simple Italian Virgin and Child by Carlo Crivelli, c. 1470. Virgin and Child or Madonna and Child or Mary and Child usually refers to artistic depictions of Mary and Child Jesus together, as part of both Catholic and Orthodox church traditions, and very notably in the Marian art in the Catholic Church.
The Virgin and the laughing Child, Leonardo da Vinci, from Victoria and Albert Museum, London [1] 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]
The Virgin and Child is a painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Rogier van der Weyden dating from after 1454 in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It has not always been thought to be an original autograph work of van der Weyden.
The Virgin of the pillar or Notre-Dame de Paris is a title of the Blessed Virgin that is associated with a near life-size stone statue, 1.8 metres tall, of the Virgin and Child created in the early 14th century. The statue was transferred to Notre-Dame in 1818, it was first placed in the over mantal of the portal of the Virgin to replace the ...
The signed sculpture of the Virgin and Child with St. Anne was acquired in 2005 from the parish church of Our Lady in Pey-Echt. It bears the name IAN and the date 151[1?] (last digit illegible). It is almost double the size (86.2 cm) of the unsigned version. In this sculpture, Mary's lower right arm is missing, so it is unclear what she was ...
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]
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 ...