This painted terracotta relief is one of many half-length images of the Madonna and Child that were made for domestic devotion in the fifteenth century. This intimate composition, with the Jesus nestled against his mother, ...

This poorly preserved painted stucco relief is one of many half-length images of the Madonna and Child that were made for domestic devotion in the fifteenth century. This intimate composition, with the faces of the figures ...

This relief is made of painted papier-mâché on wood. Many such half-length images of the Madonna and Child were made out of relatively cheap materials for domestic devotion. Handbooks from the period inform us that children ...

This painted wood sculpture of the Madonna and Child is impossible to date or attribute accurately, as it could be a work of c. 1200 or an old-fashioned work of almost a century later. Unlike later versions of the subject, ...