Madonna and Child
Images of the Madonna breastfeeding the Infant Christ—the “Virgo lactans” in Latin—were popular in Europe from the 1300s on. The subject testifies to the Madonna’s role as mother and nurturer as well as to the humanity of Christ. Like most paintings of the subject, this exampl...
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26091
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 281, as Melozzo da Forlì]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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3
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.703_Fnt_BW_H65.jpg |
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| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.703_Fnt_BW_H65.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.703 |
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