depicts: Virgin Mary

instance of: painting (2,275) | statue (269) | sculpture (93) | fresco (65) | triptych (61) | polyptych (51) | reredos (47) | icon (45) | polychrome sculpture (26) | tondo (24) | altarpiece (19) | woodcut print (19) | copper engraving (17) | panel painting (13) | drawing (13) | print (10) | painting series (10) | diptych (9)

commissioned by: Frederick III (2) | Étienne Chevalier (2) | Gregorio Correr (2) | Diego de Bordas (2) | church building (1) | Cosimo de' Medici (1) | Leo X (1) | Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1) | Jakob Fugger (1) | Jakob Heller (1) | Innocent X (1) | Marie de' Medici (1) | Clemens August of Bavaria (1) | Carthusians (1) | Palla Strozzi (1) | Nicolas Rolin (1) | Pietro Aldobrandini (1) | Jakob Meyer zum Hasen (1)

owned by: Robert Lehman (31) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (21) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (15) | Birmingham Museum of Art (13) | Michael Friedsam (11) | Jules Bache (8) | Benjamin Altman (6) | John G. Johnson (5) | King Baudouin Foundation (5) | Bartolomeo della Nave (5) | Charles Van Herck (5) | Alfons Van Herck (5) | France (4) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (4) | Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (4) | Padua (3) | Cordoba Fine Arts Museum (3) | Louis XIV of France (2)

movement: High Renaissance (128) | Italian Renaissance (98) | Flemish Primitives (69) | German Renaissance (56) | Early Renaissance (42) | Venetian school (40) | Gothic sculpture (26) | Proto-Renaissance (24) | Baroque (22) | mannerism (21) | Gothic art (16) | Renaissance (12) | medieval art (10) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (5) | Baroque painting (5) | Renaissance art (5) | rococo (4) | academic art (4)

genre: religious art (2,233) | religious painting (147) | religious sculpture (54) | Christian art (18) | portrait (13) | sculptural group (12) | nude (8) | miniature (7) | sculpture (5) | public art (4) | genre art (4) | allegory (4) | still life (3) | self-portrait (3) | mannerism (2) | landscape art (2) | floral painting (2) | interior view (2)

named after: Jakob Heller (1) | Cadolzburg (1) | Badia Ardenga (1) | Rucellai chapel (1) | Otzdorf (1) | St. Nikolaus (1)

based on: Madonna and Child (140) | New Testament (24) | Bride of Christ (19) | Adoration of the shepherds (19) | Nativity of Jesus (18) | Saint George and the Dragon (9) | Annunciation (8) | flight into Egypt (7) | Sacra Conversazione (4) | crucifixion (4) | Adoration of the Magi (3) | Maestà (3) | Madonna of humility (3) | Revelation of John (2) | crucifixion of Jesus (2) | Virgo inter Virgines (2) | gospel (1) | resurrection of Jesus (1)

artist: anonymous (283) | Raphael (58) | Cima da Conegliano (54) | Albrecht Dürer (53) | Giovanni Bellini (46) | Antonio da Correggio (41) | Sandro Botticelli (38) | Titian (38) | Carlo Crivelli (38) | Pietro Perugino (37) | Filippo Lippi (35) | Lorenzo Lotto (32) | Fra Angelico (30) | Andrea Mantegna (30) | Giotto di Bondone (30) | Moretto da Brescia (26) | Andrea del Sarto (22) | Peter Paul Rubens (22)

part of the series: Life of the Virgin (12) | Jesus Christ (3) | Little Passion (3) | Apocalypse (1) | Madonna (1) | The Life of the Virgin (1) | Cycle of four altar pieces for the patron saints of Siena (1) | The Annunciation (1)

material used: oil paint (1,329) | wood (661) | tempera (501) | canvas (493) | panel (388) | gold (93) | fresco (77) | gold leaf (70) | oak (55) | poplar wood (47) | canvas (42) | marble (26) | paper (19) | copper (16) | color (15) | lime (14) | stone (12) | terracotta (12)

collection: National Museum in Warsaw (190) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (153) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (149) | Uffizi Gallery (121) | National Gallery (79) | National Gallery of Art (63) | Rijksmuseum (51) | Museo del Prado (49) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (47) | private collection (46) | Gemäldegalerie (42) | Samuel H. Kress Collection (40) | Statens Museum for Kunst (39) | Pinacoteca di Brera (38) | Hermitage Museum (37) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (35) | Walters Art Museum (30) | Musée des Augustins (30)

location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (147) | National Museum in Warsaw (78) | National Gallery (76) | Uffizi Gallery (75) | museum's storage space (66) | National Gallery of Art (62) | Rijksmuseum (50) | Museo del Prado (48) | Uffizi (42) | Statens Museum for Kunst (39) | Pinacoteca di Brera (38) | Gemäldegalerie (36) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (34) | Alte Pinakothek (33) | Hermitage Museum (32) | Walters Art Museum (30) | Room 710 (28) | Lisbon (27)

part of: works by Biagio Bellotti (5) | Polyptych of the Main Chapel of the Cathedral of Viseu (5) | Collection Van Herck (5) | Cycle of the Life of the Christ (4) | Pisa Polyptych (3) | Scenes from the Life of the Virgin (3) | Lamego Cathedral polyptych (3) | Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (2) | Virgin of the rocks (2) | Scrovegni Chapel (2) | Colonna Altarpiece (2) | The Annunciation (2) | Crucifixion (2) | 1472 Polyptych (2) | Porto San Giorgio Polyptych (2) | Loreto chapel in Brno (2) | Cycle of the Life of Virgin Mary (2) | Poliptyk z Legnicy (2)

country of origin: Italy (109) | Spain (21) | United States of America (8) | France (7) | Portugal (4) | Belgium (2) | Egypt (1) | Mexico (1) | Brazil (1) | Germany (1) | Catalonia (1) | Byzantine Empire (1) | Silesia (1) | Habsburg Netherlands (1)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (64) | Europeana 280 (15) | Florentine Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum (10) | Exposition des primitifs français (9) | Mirabilis (7) | Velázquez (6) | The Michael Friedsam Collection (4) | Prayers and Portraits, Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych (4) | Florence and its Painters: From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci (4) | Mantegna and Bellini (4) | Las Edades del Hombre (3) | From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (3) | Corps et Ombres (2) | Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of genius (2) | El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez (2) | Art in Florence in the Age of Dante (1250-1300) (2) | The Bache Collection (2) | Gerard David: Flanders's Last Medieval Master (2)

main subject: Madonna and Child (981) | Sacra Conversazione (152) | Annunciation (144) | Adoration of the Magi (92) | crucifixion of Jesus (60) | Nativity of Jesus (47) | Adoration of the shepherds (42) | Pietà (40) | Holy Family (36) | Assumption of Mary (28) | Coronation of the Virgin (26) | Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (23) | lamentation of Christ (22) | Visitation (21) | Immaculate Conception of Mary (20) | flight into Egypt (20) | Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (17) | rest on the flight into Egypt (13)

donated by: Robert Lehman (4) | George Blumenthal (4) | Michael Friedsam (4) | Theodore M. Davis (2) | Joseph Pulitzer (1) | Palla Strozzi (1) | heir (1) | Benjamin Altman (1) | anonymous (1) | Coudert Brothers (1) | Enric Serra Auqué (1) | Revell McCallum (1) | Axel Beskow (1) | Irma N. Straus (1) | Edward Fowles (1) | Josephine Bieber (1)

location of final assembly: Italy (9) | Florence (9) | Venice (5) | Germany (4) | Spain (3) | Madrid (3) | Basel (2) | Constantinople (2) | Europe (1) | London (1) | Paris (1) | Rome (1) | Cologne (1) | Padua (1) | Jerusalem (1) | Parma (1) | Siena (1) | Perugia (1)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (22) | A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (10) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Florentine School/ (10) | Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (3) | German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350–1600 (3) | From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | Italian Renaissance Frames (2) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, Venetian School (2) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 4, North Italian School (1) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 3, Sienese and Central Italian Schools (1) | The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 1, Italian Paintings (1) | Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300–1450 (1) | The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 4, Illuminations (1) | The Unicorn Tapestries (1) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 5, The Renaissance in the North (1) | Fra Angelico (1) | Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Paintings: France, Central Europe, The Netherlands, Spain, and Great Britain (1) | Flemish Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)

fabrication method: fresco painting (58) | polychromy (29) | relief sculpture (13) | bas-relief (10) | chiaroscuro (9) | oil painting (6) | wash (4) | haut-relief technique (2) | embroidery (1) | intaglio printing (1) | direct carving (1) | gilding (1) | quilting (1) | fresco-secco (1) | trois crayons (1) | appliqué (1) | dovetailing (1) | slit tapestry weaving (1)

time period: Renaissance (23) | Baroque (3) | 17th century (2) | 1700 (1) | 18th century (1) | 15th century (1) | 6th century (1)