In the last decades of his career, Paolo Veronese and his workshop produced a number of idyllic visions of the Holy Family in repose in the countryside during their flight into Egypt. This crowded sheet of loose, lively sketches was recently proposed to have inaugurated an intensive period of intere
This engraving shows the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child attended by a bishop saint, an angel, Saint Jerome and Saint Margaret. It was made by Francesco Rosaspina around 1800-1809 after a composition by the Italian Mannerist painter Parmigianino, and is held in the Wellcome Collection, London.
This woodcut, made between 1504 and 1505 by the German artist Albrecht Durer, depicts the Virgin Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth. It is one of nineteen prints in his series Life of the Virgin, which established his reputation across Europe.
The Virgin Mary sits on a stone bench. A halo of light around her head cuts through the shadows of the space. She looks tired and pensive as she cradles the baby Jesus in her lap. Any new parents can recognize the exhaustion and the weight of responsibility. She rests...
