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Description: | The Virgin Mary is depicted in a grand, colonnaded setting with a flight of steps in the background. The steps may allude to the stairs that Mary climbed as a small child in the apocryphal story of her presentation in the temple. Mary's head is bowed and her hands are raised as if in surprise. It has been suggested that the canvas originally formed part of a larger image of the Annunciation. The painting was probably made as a devotional image by an unidentified Italian or Spanish artist. Mary's appearance suggests an eighteenth- or even nineteenth-century date. | Subjects: | figure; religion (Virgin Mary); buildings and gardens | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian School Æ Attributed to Attributed to Spanish School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8553... | Go to resource |
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