Madonna and Child
Renaissance devotional subject
Madonna and Child is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus.
The theme dominated Western religious painting and sculpture from the medieval period through the Renaissance, with countless variations showing Mary holding, nursing, or gazing at her son.
The museum's collection includes several Madonna and Child paintings from the Italian Renaissance.
The phrase often appears as a title or description in art contexts.
- Virgin MaryMother of Christ
- baby JesusNewborn in the manger
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- Old MastersPre-modern European artists
- HaloRing of divine radiance
divine light · Byzantine · Baroque · art history · Christology · Iconography · oil painting · Saints · Annunciation · Raphael · Holy Family · Fresco · gold leaf · altar piece · stained glass · Sacred Heart · Trinity · Mantle
- Christ imagerycrucifixion, nativity, Last Supper, Good Shepherd, crown of thorns
- Icon Paintingicon painting, religious icons, tempera
- Bellini WorksNorma, Transfiguration
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- Virgin MaryMother of God, Queen of Heaven, Virgin and Child, Blessed Virgin, Immaculate Conception