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A depiction of St. Jerome was required by the commissioner because of the saint's connection with the adoration of the Virgin Mary. The painting is popularly called Madonna of the Long Neck because "the painter, in his eagerness to make the Holy Virgin look graceful and elegant, has given her a neck like that of a swan."
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They usually show Mary holding the infant Jesus in an informal and maternal manner. These paintings often include symbolic reference to the Passion of Christ. The "Adoring Madonna" is a type popular during the Renaissance. These images, usually small and intended for personal devotion, show Mary kneeling in adoration of the Christ Child.
Mary was an eager collector of objects and pictures with a royal connection. [51] She paid above-market estimates when purchasing jewels from the estate of Dowager Empress Marie of Russia [ 52 ] and paid almost three times the estimate when buying the family's Cambridge Emeralds from Lady Kilmorey, [ 53 ] the mistress of her late brother Prince ...
Madonna with the Long Neck (1534–40) – Oil on wood, 216 x 132 cm, Uffizi, Florence; Portrait of Pier Maria Rossi di San Secondo (c. 1535–1539) – Oil on panel, 133 x 98 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid; Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene (c. 1535-1540) - Oil on panel, 75.9 × 59.7cm, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Madonna of humility by Domenico di Bartolo 1433 has been described as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early Renaissance [35]. Catholic Marian art has expressed a wide range of theological topics that relate to Mary, often in ways that are far from obvious, and whose meaning can only be recovered by detailed scholarly analysis.
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Several venerated images of Jesus Christ and Saint Joseph have also been granted a pontifical coronation. [ a ] The pontifical decree of canonical coronation Qui Semper granted for the "Virgin of Hope of Triana" in Spain , legally imposing the venerated Marian image the Pontifical right to wear a crown by Pope John Paul II on 7 April 1983.