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Virgin and Child with a Pomegranate
BOTTICELLI, Alessandro (1447 - 1510)
Media: oil on board
Size: 64.8 x 41.9 cm
Acquired: 1952; Bequest; Gwendoline Davies
Accession Number: NMW A 242
Collection: The Davies Sisters Collection
One of the principal Florentine painters of the late fifteenth century, Botticelli was patronised by the Medici and the Papacy. This painting is based upon the central figures in his San Barnaba Altarpiece of about 1485 in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The pomegranate held by the Christ Child is a Christian symbol of the Resurrection.
Work not on display
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