Virgin and Child

ca. 1480 (Renaissance)

56.4 cm 76 cm 0.8 cm

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The Virgin and Child sit on a bench of richly carved porphyry, a semi-precious stone mined in Egypt and traditionally associated with the Roman emperors and then with Christ as "lord of creation." Behind are the ruins of a domed building resembling the Pantheon, the famous te...

Drawing

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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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