Virgin and Child

1450-1460 (Renaissance)

35.8 cm 53.2 cm

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Personal devotions directed to the Virgin were a natural part of life for Christians in Renaissance Europe, so a painting of the Virgin and Child of this size and intimacy was most likely intended for the home. Giovanni Francesco da Rimini followed the conservative northern It...

Drawing

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6596
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provenance
Private collection, Florence, before 1912; purchased by A. S. Drey, Munich and New York, ca. 1913; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, ca. 1915; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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en
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2
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Gothic
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