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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]
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 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]
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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 ...
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Saints and angels flank the Virgin and Child with the donor kneeling to the left of the holy figures. Mary sits on her throne beneath a rich brocade canopy of honor, holding the child Jesus on her lap. Two angels dressed in liturgical garments, stand to either side of the throne slightly behind the two saints.