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unusual facts about Madonna and Child



Marian and Holy Trinity columns

By the 17th century only this column survived; in 1614 it was transported to Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore and crowned with a bronze statue of the Virgin and Child.

St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Chester

The Lady Chapel reredos features a Madonna and Child with the inscription "Magnificat anima mea Dominum, et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deum" from the Magnificat The Lady Chapel Altar has three carved panels featuring a pelican feeding her chicks with her own blood, a Lamb holding a Shepherd's staff with the inscription "Ecce Agnus Dei" and another carved panel depicting an Eagle in flight.


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Antoniazzo Romano

A portion of his Madonna and Child with Donor from the Houston, Texas Museum of Fine Arts was chosen as the art masterpiece United States Postal Service's Christmas stamp for 1991.

Girolamo di Giovanni di Camerino

Girolamo di Giovanni di Camerino was an Italian painter, and is generally supposed to be the son of Giovanni Boccati, and was the painter of an altar-piece at Santa Maria del Pozzo in Monte San Martino, near Fermo, and represents the Madonna and Child, and four Angels, between SS. Thomas and Cyprian (1473)

Johann Conrad Dorner

A 'Madonna and Child, with St. John,' and the 'Infant Christ' are in the Pinakothek at Munich.

Lorenzo di San Severino

He painted an altarpiece of Madonna and child with St. Catherine receiving ring and St. Domenic and glory of angels for the church of Santa Lucia in Fabriano, now displayed in the National Gallery of London

Louis Osman

Restoration and improvements to numbers 11-14, a Convent and installation of Epstein's Madonna and Child statue.

Master of 1302

His works were basically Gothic in style, with modernized touches; his name comes from a set of votive frescos painted for bishop Gerardo de' Bianchi, who died in 1302; among these is a Madonna and Child Enthroned with an Angel and John the Baptist, including a portrait of the donor, located in the Baptistry of Parma.

Palazzo Comunale, San Gimignano

Other rooms contain a Maestà from the late thirteenth century, altar decorations by Memmo di Filippuccio, a "Madonna and Child" by Vincenzo Tamagni (1528), several Gothic altarpieces (including one showing scenes from the life of Saint Gimignano), a "Madonna with Saints Gregory and Benedict" by Pinturicchio, and two medieval crucifixes of the Florentine school.

Parish Church of Saint John and Saint Ermolao

Among the works are: two paintings by Aurelio Lomi, a tablet with the Madonna and Child by Cecco di Pietro and what remains of a cross painted in the 12th century .

Sacro Cuore, Florence

There is a stained glass window of the Resurrection by Marcello Avelani, bronze doors and ceramic saints by Angelo Biancini, mosaic Stations of the Cross by Giovanni Haynal, a cruzifix by Umberto Bartoli, a 16th-century Madonna and Child, a Last Supper by Giovanni Stradano and the Apparition of the Sacred Heart by Antonio Ciseri (1880).

Themes in Italian Renaissance painting

The figures placed at opposing diagonals seen in this early Madonna and Child by Leonardo da Vinci was a compositional theme that was to recur in many of his works and be imitated by his pupils and by Raphael.

Leonardo da Vinci abandoned any sort of formal canopy and surrounded the Madonna and Child with the grandeur of nature into which he set the figures in a carefully balanced ye seemingly informal trapezoid composition.