Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
This "tondo" (round painting) depicts the "Virgo lactans," the Latin term for the nursing Virgin Mary. The image testifies to the humanity of Christ as it shows that he consumed food like all other humans. Mary is seated on the ground--in this pose, she is known as the Madonna...
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15551
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 31, as Botticelli]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.422_Fnt_BW_H63.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.422_Fnt_BW_H63.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.422_Fnt_BW_H63.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.422 |
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