The Virgin and Child Between Two Angels (Q21674924)

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movement: Early Netherlandish painting (Q443153)
genre: religious art (Q2864737)
artist: Master of Frankfurt (Q204874)
collection: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) (Q2365880) Vlaamse Kunstcollectie (VKC) (Q2542010)
location: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) (Q2365880)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) panel (Q106857709)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
MSK Gent work PID: 1906-C
BALaT object ID: 103181
RKDimages ID: 38466

catalog URL: http://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1906-C

information from the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) catalog

description: The Virgin and Child with Two Angels is a fairly typical example of fifteenth-century panel painting. The wall on which Mary is sitting refers to the hortus conclusus, or private garden, a symbol of Mary’s Immaculate Conception. The fruit an angel is offering to Jesus points to his role as the ‘new…

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