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Albrecht Dürer, Virgin and Child on crescent Moon, Bartsch 76

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THE VIRGIN

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Holy Family
  Virgin, Child and Joseph only
    With fruit or flowers
    Without fruit or flowers
  Virgin, Child, Joseph and angels only
  Joseph engaged in– – 
    Carpentry
    Feeding Child
    Playing with Child
    Holding Child
    Sleeping
  Miscellaneous
    With book
    At table
    With yarn– winder
    Adoring the Child
    Virgin nursing
    Sleeping Child
    With angel appearing to– – 
      Joachim
      Joseph
    With fountain of life
    With donors
    With symbols of the Virgin
    With other scenes
    With other unidentified figure
    With later saints
    With God the Father/Holy Spirit
    With instruments of the Passion
    With allegorical figures
    With lamb (without John the Baptist)
    Adaptations
  With St John the Baptist
    Only
    And angels
    And later saints
    And other unidentified figures
    As an adult
    And Mary Magdalene
    And St Elisabeth
      Only
      And St Zacharias
      And Sts Mary Cleophas and Mary Salome
      And later saints
      And angels
      And other figures (neither saints nor angels)
  With St Anne
    Only
    And St Joachim
    And St John the Baptist
    And Sts John the Baptist and Elisabeth
    And St John the Baptist and later saints
    And angels
Virgin and Child
  With St Anne
    Virgin smaller in size
      Held like an infant
      Standing/sitting by St Anne
    Virgin similar in size
      Christ Child between them
      Virgin sitting in Anne's lap
      Christ Child not between them, Virigin not in Anne's lap
    And donors
    And later saints
    Virgin and Child crushing serpent
    And Trinity
    And unidentified figures
  Byzantine types
    Hodegetria
    Eleousa
    Nikopoia
    Platytera
  Half– length
    No saints, angels, donors or attributes
      With parapet
        Child standing on parapet
        Child not standing on parapet
      Without parapet
        Child standing on lap
        Child not standing on lap
          Child at left
          Child at right
  Full– length
    Standing
      No saints, angels, donors or attributes
        Child at left
        Child at right
        Child in centre
    Seated
      No saints, angels, donors or attributes
        Child at left
        Child at right
        Child in centre
      Medieval sculpture
        York Minster and Museum
        London, V&A
        London, British Museum
        Wells cathedral
  Child sleeping
  With inscriptions
  Child blessing
  With birds
    Goldfinch
    Parrot
    Other species
  With animals
    Ape
    Hare/rabbit
    Cat
    Dog
    Lamb
    Squirrel
    Butterfly
    Mythical animals
    Miscellaneous
  With flowers
    Rose
    Lily
    Pink/carnation
    Sweet pea/vetch
    Columbine
    In a garland
    Miscellaneous
  With fruit
    Apple
    Pear
    Grapes
    Pomegranate
    Cherries
    Miscellaneous
  With book
    Child reading
    Child turning pages
    Child pointing to text
    Virgin turning pages/pointing to text
    Book held by Virgin
    Book held by Child
    Book lying nearby
  Holding a scroll
  Dictating
  Writing
  Virgin feeding Child with pap
  Virgin washing Child
  Virgin with Child playing
  Virgin fondling/caressing Child
  Virgin nursing Child (Virgo lactans)
    Virgin and Child only
    With saints
    With angels
    With saints and angels
    Adaptations
  Virgin adoring Child
    Alone
    With saints/angels
  Virgin of humility
  With St John the Baptist
    Specific works
      Leonardo, Madonna of the Rocks
      Michelangelo, Royal Academy tondo
      Raphael, Madonna della Seggiola
      Titian, Munich
    John as an infant
      No other saints, no angels
        Less than full– length
        Full– length
      And angels
      And St Elisabeth
      And Sts Elisabeth and Zacharias
      And later saints
    As an adult
    And other figures
  With prophets
  With apostles
  With church fathers
  With saints
    Specific works
      Andrea del Sarto
      Cesare da Sesto
      Follower of B. Daddi
      Domenico Veneziano
      Follower of Duccio
      Master of Flémalle
      Giorgione
      Giovanni del Ponte
      Master of the Goodhart Madonna
      Rome, S. Maria in Trastevere
      Sassetta
      Bernardo Zenale
    Virgin adoring child
    Holding apple
    With single saint
    Less than full– length
    Standing
    Seated (not on throne)
    In an apse
    Beneath a baldachin
    On a low throne
      With two saints
      With three or four saints
      With five or more saints
    On a high throne
      With two saints
      With three or four saints
      With five or more saints
    'Sacra conversazione'– type
      Pastoral
      In a building
    With non– musician angels
    With musician angels
  With angels
    Musician (without saints)
    Less than full length
    Enthroned
    Full length
      Seated not on throne
      Standing
  Crowned
    By angels
      With saints
      Without saints
      Beneath a crown
  With prefigurations of Christ's fate
    Scenes from Christ's Passion
    Crucifixion
    Christ displaying his wounds
    Child holding cross or crown of thorns
    Angels holding instruments of the Passion
    Other
  With other scenes
    From the life of the Virgin
    With annunciation
    With shepherds
    From Christ's life
    From lives of Christ and the saints
  With symbolic objects
    Hanging egg
    Scapular
    Amulet
    Honey
    Flyswitch
    Yarn– winder
    Cradle
    Ears of corn
    Star– covered mantle
    Pearl
    Clock
    Orb
    Dragon/lion
    Globe/snake
    Fountain
    Vision of tabernacle
    Memento mori
    Rosary
      Antonello da Messina
      Virgen de Pomata type
      Giving rosary to saints
      Giving rosary to the devout
      Virgin and Child holding rosary
  In clouds
    With St John the Baptist
    With saints
    Without saints
      With angels
      Without angels
  With single suppliant/donor
    With saints
    Without saints
  With more than one suppliant/donor
    With saints
    Without saints
  Virgo inter virgines
  Vierges ouvrantes
  Miscellaneous botanical symbolism
    In the burning bush
    In a tree
    In a wood
    'Madonna im Rosenhag'
    In a garden
  In glory/mandorla
  On the crescent moon
    Full– length
      Without saints, moon's face not visible
      With saints
    Half– length
    With moon's face visible
    With crushing of serpent/devil
    With Cain and Abel
    With sun and moon
  In the sun
  Miraculous or cult images
    Madonna of Loreto
    Beautiful Virgin of Regensburg
    Notre Dame de Sablons
    Madonna of Monserrato
    Virgen de la Candelaria
    Nuestra Señora de Atocha
    La Peregrina de Quito
    Santa Maria Peña de Francia
    Virgen del Pilar
    Virgen de Guadalupe
    Miscellaneous
  Miscellaneous
    'Black' madonnas
    Of the Carmelites
    Of the Order of Mercy
    With Virtues
    With prisoners
    In triumph
    In classical setting
    In a gothic interior
    With miscellaneous attributes
    Miscellaneous
    Adaptations
Tree of Jesse
  Specific images
    Wall– painting, Arilje
    Window, Beauvais, St Stephen's
    Fresco, Braunschweig cathedral
    Windows, Costessey, Norfolk
    Ceiling, Hildesheim, St Michael's
    Wall– painting, Mateich
    Window, Soissons cathedral
  Without extended genealogy
    Virga only
      Miscellaneous
      With dove of Holy Spirit, or seven doves of gifts of Holy Spirit
      Virga, Virgin and Christ
  With extended genealogy
    Manuscript illuminations
    Sculpture
    Paintings
    Windows
    Textiles
    Prints and drawings
  Variations
    With Biblical scenes, or scenes of martyrdom
    With crucifixion
    With other trees (of life, of seven gifts)
    With classical philosophers
    Speculum virginum
    Tree from feet
  Miscellaneous
    Fragments
    Adaptations
    Comparative material 
    Miscellaneous Watson material
Genealogy of Christ
  Ancestors
  Holy Kinship
Life of the Virgin
  Cycles
    Austrian paintings, 15th century
    Coghetti, Savona cathedral
    Dürer, Bartsch 76– 95
    Hans Fries, Basle
    Gaddi, S. Croce, Florence
    Gatti, Bartsch 7– 22
    Ghirlandaio, S. Maria Novella, Florence
    Giotto, Padua, Arena chapel
    'School of Giotto'
    Giovanni da Milano, S. Croce, Florence
    Goltzius, Bartsch 15– 20
    Grandi
    Halberstadt, tapestry
    Heures de la Vierge
    Kremsmünster, Benediktinerstift
    Leonardo da Besozzo, S. Giovanni a Carbonara, Naples
    Lorenzo Monaco, S, Trinità, Florence
    Master of the Life of the Virgin
    Master of the Presentation
    Israhel van Meckenem
    Memling, Seven Joys, Munich
    Nardo di Cione, S. Maria Novella, Florence
    Nelli, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno
    Orcagna, Orsanmichele, Florence
    Padua, Carmine
    Prato, cathedral
    St Lambrecht, Schlosskirche
    Siena, S. Bernardino
    Siena cathedral, Chigi chapel
    Taddeo di Bartolo, Siena
    M. Reichlich, Munich
    Venetian, 15th century
    Venice, S. Marco
    Hieronymus Wierix
    Miscellaneous
    Miscellaneous– – textiles
  Joachim and Anne
    Cycles
    Single figures
    Dividing their goods
    Praying in the temple
    Joachim driven from the temple
    Angel appearing to Joachim amongst the shepherds
    Angel appears to Anne
    Meeting at the Golden Gate
    Miscellaneous
  Birth of the Virgin
    Andrea del Sarto
    Virgin held by St Anne
    Virgin held by a nurse
    Virgin being or about to be washed
    Miscellaneous
  Presentation of the Virgin in the temple
    Titian, Accademia, Venice
    Paolo di Giovanni Fei, Washington
    Miscellaneous
  Education of the Virgin, etc
    Virgin with Joachim and Anne
    Virgin taught to read
    Virgin sewing, etc
    Virgin receiving food from an angel
    Virgin knitting/sewing seamless cloak
  Marriage of the Virgin
    Miracle of the budding rod
    Nicholas Dipre
    Raphael
    With suitors breaking their rods
    Without suitors breaking their rods
  Proof of the Virgin by means of water
  Events preceding the Virgin's death
  Death of the Virgin
    Arnolfo di Cambio
    Hugo van der Goes
    Eastern Orthodox
    Christ or God receiving the Virgin's soul
      With aspergillum
      Without aspergillum
    Christ/God not present
      With aspergillum
      Without aspergillum
    With Christ/God, without Virgin's soul
    Without Christ/God, with Virgin's soul
    Without apostles
  Funeral of the Virgin
  Assumption of the Virgin
    Specific works
      Andrea del Sarto
      Cesio
      Rubens and follower
      Massimo Stanzione
      Titian
    Without Apostles, Christ or Trinity
    With Apostles, without Trinity or Holy Women
    With Apostles and Holy Women
    With God, Christ or Trinity
    With legend of the girdle
    With later saints
    With prophets
    With donors
    Without the Virgin
    Virgin as child in Christ's arms
    Virgin on her deathbed
    Reception of Virgin in Heaven
    With coronation of the Virgin
    Miscellaneous
  Coronation of the Virgin
    Specific works
      Fra Angelico, Louvre
      Giovanni Bellini, Pesaro
      Guariento, Venice, Palazzo Ducale
      Antependium, 14th– century Venetian
    Virgin and Christ only
    Virgin, Christ and angels only
    Virgin, Christ and saints only
    With saints and angels, Virgin crowned by Christ
    With God the Father and Christ
    With God the Father
    With Trinity
      Holy Spirit as dove
        With angels
          Without saints
          With saints
        Without angels
          Without saints
      Holy Spirit in human form
    No members of the Trinity present
    With four evangelists
    With prophets
    With donors
    With other scenes
    With dead Christ
    With empty tomb
    With seven joys of Virgin
    The crown of the Virgin
    Miscellaneous
Iconography of the Virgin
  Virgin alone
    Full length
    Less than full length
      Hands visible
      Hands not visible
  Symbols
  Legends and miracles
  Seven joys
  Seven sorrows
  Seven sorrows cycle: Boucquet
  Virgo orans
  Virgin of the apocalypse
  Virgin as queen of heaven (regina coeli)
  Allegories
  Hortus conclusus with unicorn hunt
  With ears of corn
  Madonna del Magnificat
  Mater misericordiae
    With child
    Without child
  As patroness/protectress
  Madonna del soccorso (fighting a devil)
  As priestess
  In armour
  Standing on globe and snake
  Carrying a crucifix
  With saints
  Mater dolorosa
  Contemplating crown of thorns
  In glory
  'Benedicta tu in mulieribus'
  Madonna del Parto
  Virgin with child visible in womb
  With a book
  On throne of Solomon
  Biverus, Sacrum Oratorium
  With seven gifts of the Holy Spirit
  Madonna of Savona
  Madonna del Pilar
  Specific images
  Miscellaneous
  Immacolata
    Single figure
    With angels
    With God the Father/Holy Spirit
    With Sts Anne and Joachim
    With saints
    With Child
    With donors
  Immaculate conception
    Allegory
    Allegory– – El Greco
    Miscellaneous