This embracing posture was a customary way of embodying the intimate, familial relationship between mother and child in late medieval works. Her dual roles as both virgin and mother distinguish Mary ...
The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke—is housed in this sanctuary. “The first time she appeared,” Anathalie ...
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This Painting Was Thought to Be a Botticelli Copy. Now, Researchers Say It Was Made in His StudioIt actually comes straight from Botticelli’s studio. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary and a young St. John the Baptist holding the infant Christ, and it’s been in the possession of the St ...
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