18

Renaissance

ICON. MADONNA AND CHILD

• Cretan workshop
• Oil paint on wood
• 88 x 68.5 x 6.5 cm
• Circa 1500
• Origin: unknown

MDCS 18

This icon is from a category of markedly Western icons known as Italocretan.

The Madonna is represented as the “Madre della Consolazione” type, holding Christ with her right hand. This type of Madonna appears in a great many Cretan icons found in Greece and Italy.

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