Plaque with the Virgin and Child

ca. 1500-1550 (Renaissance)

35 cm 44.5 cm

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Plaques portraying the Virgin and Child comprised a common, relatively inexpensive form of Christian art that was displayed in the entry way of many homes in central Italy during the Renaissance period. Christians revered the Virgin as an intercessor with Christ, protecting th...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [no. 410]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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