Madonna and Child

ca. 1430 (Renaissance)

23.8 cm 40.4 cm

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This small yet sumptuous panel of the Madonna and Child is rich in symbolism. The Christ Child holds a sheaf of wheat, symbolic of the Eucharistic bread eaten during the Catholic mass, which is in turn symbolic of Christ’s body. Delicately incised into the gold leaf background...

Drawing

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19262
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Bernard Berenson [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911 [mode of acquisition unknown] [through Berenson]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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