The Madonna of Humility

1435-1445 (Renaissance)

32.7 cm 62.2 cm

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Seated in the grass wirh the infant Christ on her lap, the Virgin is depicted not as Queen of Heaven but as a humble figure who is not too proud just to sit down in the grass. Such images known as the Virgin or Madonna of Humility became popular in late 1300s and early 1400s i...

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Bernard Berenson [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase [from Berenson]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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