location: British Museum / collection: British Museum

instance of: sculpture (15) | drawing (12) | painting (11) | statue (8) | engraving (5) | print (4) | mosaic (2) | sarcophagus (1) | shield (1) | icon (1) | archaeological artifact (1) | work of art (1) | carton (1) | inscription (1) | mythological serpent (1) | etching (1) | woodcut print (1) | copper engraving (1)

commissioned by: Tommaso dei Cavalieri (1)

movement: Italian Renaissance (4) | German Renaissance (2) | Symbolism (1) | Flemish Primitives (1) | archaic sculpture (1) | Etruscan art (1) | Hellenistic sculpture (1) | Yoruba art (1)

genre: portrait (6) | landscape art (5) | religious art (5) | nude (3) | religious painting (2) | mythological painting (2) | floral painting (2) | mythological sculpture (2) | self-portrait (1) | kouros (1) | genre art (1) | figurative art (1) | animal sculpture (1) | animal art (1) | religious object (1)

named after: Ur (1) | Sydney Burney (1)

based on: Book of Genesis (1) | New Testament (1) | Metamorphoses (1) | Triumph of Titus and Vespasian (1) | A Farrier shoeing a Piebald Horse (1) | Landscape with a Rock Arch (1) | Landscape with Travellers and Bathers (1)

artist: anonymous (8) | Albrecht Dürer (3) | Michelangelo (3) | Leonardo da Vinci (2) | Rembrandt (2) | William Blake (2) | Maria Sibylla Merian (2) | Margaret Sarah Carpenter (2) | Peter Paul Rubens (1) | Rogier van der Weyden (1) | Odilon Redon (1) | Phidias (1) | Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1) | Polykleitos the Elder (1) | Gu Kaizhi (1) | Cornelis Visscher (1) | Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib (1) | Frans van Mieris the Elder (1)

depicts: man (9) | woman (8) | Virgin Mary (4) | nudity (3) | Apollo (3) | Child Jesus (3) | lion (2) | Jesus Christ (2) | boy (2) | caterpillar (2) | headscarf (2) | half reclining (2) | butterfly (2) | house cat (1) | flower (1) | horse (1) | cattle (1) | Capsicum annuum (1)

material used: paper (17) | marble (6) | oil paint (6) | bronze (3) | granite (3) | ink (3) | wood (2) | terracotta (2) | vellum (2) | silverpoint (2) | black chalk (2) | watercolor paint (2) | gold (1) | conch (1) | ivory (1) | hematite (1) | beeswax (1) | turquoise (1)

part of: Old Babylonian Empire (1) | Parthenon Frieze (1) | Isin-Larsa period (1) | Chatsworth Apollo (1)

exhibition history: Meiji, Splendeurs du Japon impérial (1868-1912) (1) | Black is beautiful: Rubens tot Dumas (1)

main subject: Madonna and Child (2)

fabrication method: woodcut technique (1) | relief sculpture (1) | trois crayons (1) | bas-relief (1)