Virgin and Child with a Pomegranate
size: 64.8 x 41.9 cm
artist: workshop of Sandro Botticelli
former owner: Gwendoline Davies
National Museum, Cardiff
NMWA 242
Description from National Museum website: One of the principal Florentine painters of the late fifteenth century, Botticelli was patronised by the Medici and the Papacy. This painting is based upon the central figures in his San Barnaba Altarpiece of about 1485 in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The pomegranate held by the Christ Child is a Christian symbol of the Resurrection.
artist: workshop of Sandro Botticelli
former owner: Gwendoline Davies
National Museum, Cardiff
NMWA 242
Description from National Museum website: One of the principal Florentine painters of the late fifteenth century, Botticelli was patronised by the Medici and the Papacy. This painting is based upon the central figures in his San Barnaba Altarpiece of about 1485 in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The pomegranate held by the Christ Child is a Christian symbol of the Resurrection.
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 20-12-2011
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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
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