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Virgin and Child  1480

by Hans Memling

The composition of this small roundel of the Virgin suckling the Christ Child was very popular: it derives from a composition by Robert Campin that was disseminated through workshop patterns. Memling enriched the prototype by adding an extended wooded landscape. Roundels like this were often hung above the heads of beds, where they served as a blessing over a married coupl...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art