The Virgin and Child : en salle — Victoria and Albert Museum

The Virgin stands frontally on the crescent moon, supporting the Child who lies across her arms on a white cloth which he holds with his right hand. Her head is slightly inclined towards the infant Jesus.The shape of the crescent moon would not have provided sufficient stability for the figure to be placed in an altarpiece. In addition, the two rectangular iron bars, along with relatively large holes in the head and at the base of the crescent moon, and the elaborate carved and gilded back of the Virgin, suggest that the figure was in fact suspended from the vault, probably framed within a circle of the rosary.

The Virgin and Child

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Dans la même salle · Sculpture 1300-1600, Room 26, Victoria and Albert Museum

Sur le même thème · Virgin Mary

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St Anne with the Virgin and Child, ca. 1520-1530

Relief, ca. 1520

Relief, ca. 1520

Lamentation over the Dead Christ with the Virgin, St John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene; a Pieta., ca. 1510-1515

Relief, ca. 1500

St George (previously known as St Michael), ca. 1487-1515

Saint James the Greater, ca. 1350-1360

The Virgin Annunciate, ca. 1350-60

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1891

The Annunciation, ca. 1490

Diptyque de la Crucifixion et du Jugement dernier, ca. 1436–38

The Immaculate Conception, 1627

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, 1648

L'Adoration des Mages, ca. 1475

The Coronation of the Virgin, after 1595

The Annunciation, ca. 1465–70