The Virgin and Child, ca. 1350-1370

The Virgin and Child

ca. 1350-1370 · Sculpture

May one see it?

Yes, receiving visitors

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, United Kingdom

RoomMedieval & Renaissance, Room 9, The Dorothy and Michael Hintze Gallery

On public display.

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In this state since
Source
The museum

About the sculpture

Statues of the Virgin and Child were invariably painted and sometimes inlaid with further decoration. Here, there are coloured and gilded glass medaillions around the edges of the draperies in imitation of costly enamels. The lower part of the Virgin's mantle was originally richly patterned with painted roundels. The canopy above emphasised the importance of the figure.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Particulars

Accession number
7949:1-1862

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

In the same room · Medieval & Renaissance, Room 9, The Dorothy and Michael Hintze Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum

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