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  2. Virgin and Child with Four Angels - Wikipedia

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    Painted for private devotion, it shows a full-length Mary holding Jesus. Mother and son are surrounded by four angels; the two above Mary are adorned with large colourful wings and hold a golden crown, symbolising her role as Queen of Heaven [4] while another two, each bearing large wings, sit on either side of her playing a harp and lute respectively.

  3. Our Lady of La Leche - Wikipedia

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    Our Lady of La Leche (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de La Leche y Buen Parto; "Our Lady of the Milk and Good Delivery") is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a statue of her breastfeeding the infant Jesus Christ. [1] It is said to be one of the oldest of all Marian devotions. [2]

  4. La Vierge aux anges - Wikipedia

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    Legend has it that he searched for a model for the painting’s figures and found them in his first wife, Nelly Monochablon, who posed for the angels, one by one, and at last, with a child in her arms. The painting shows the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus Christ, who is calmly asleep in a pastoral setting, while a trio of angels hovers ...

  5. List of depictions of the Virgin and Child - Wikipedia

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    Images of the Virgin and Child were for centuries the most common subject for Christian religious art. There are many thousands of surviving historical images. The following is a list (probably incomplete) of those with articles, listed by their usual type of title (although other title forms may be found).

  6. Nativity of Jesus in art - Wikipedia

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    In Luke's Gospel, Joseph and Mary travelled to Bethlehem, the family of Joseph's ancestors, to be listed in a tax census; the Journey to Bethlehem is a very rare subject in the West, but shown in some large Byzantine cycles. [2] While there, Mary gave birth to the infant, in a stable, because there was no room available in the inns.

  7. Christ Child - Wikipedia

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    From about the third or fourth century onwards, the child Jesus is frequently shown in paintings, and sculpture. Commonly these are nativity scenes showing the birth of Jesus, with his mother Mary, and her husband Joseph. Depictions as a baby with the Virgin Mary, known as Madonna and Child, are iconographical types in Eastern and Western ...

  8. Infant Mary - Wikipedia

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    In Catholic Mariology Mary is held as having been born and conceived a Saint [2] and full of Grace, [3] as a consequence of the Immaculate Conception. [4] It is also generally held [5] by Theologians that she had free will and rational thought, through infused knowledge, from "the first instant of her conception," [6] worshipping and loving God in her mother's womb and as an infant and child. [2]

  9. The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Leonardo) - Wikipedia

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    [n 1] It depicts Saint Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. [1] Christ is shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb symbolizing his Passion as the Virgin tries to restrain him. The painting was commissioned as the high altarpiece for the Church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence and its theme had long preoccupied Leonardo.