Madonna Adoring the Child

ca. 1485 (Renaissance)

41.6 cm 72 cm 1.6 cm

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Beneath a simple stone stable with a thatched roof, the Madonna kneels in prayer before the newborn Christ Child who reaches toward her as if asking to be held. The placement of the Child on the ground where he is surrounded by rays of divine light is a detail inspired by a mi...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 24; 1897 catalogue: no. 86, as Tuscan School, end of the 14th century]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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