anonymous
Maria met Christuskind
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Maria met Christuskind” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
The Virgin is seated with the Christ Child on her lap. Here she is more than merely the mother of Jesus, she is the symbolic throne on which the Child sits, the incarnation of divine wisdom: the sedes sapientiae. Together with carved Crucifixes, this is one of the earliest subjects of free-standing sculpture during the Middle Ages.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- BK-1963-23
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
