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Mar 6, 2007
Madonna of Humility
Madonna of Humility
late 1370s
Caterino Veneziano
(Italian, active 1362–82)
Tempera and gold on wood panel
Framed: 91.5 x 70 x 4 cm (36 x 27 9/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 79.6 x 54.6 cm (31 5/16 x 21 1/2 in.)
Gift of Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann 1963.500
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This panel used to be part of a larger altarpiece; it was cut down and reframed some time in the 1800s.
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The Madonna is shown seated on the ground as she nurses the infant Christ in a style of depiction called the "Madonna (or Virgin) of Humility." This type of image shows Mary’s humility, or humilitas in Latin, sitting on the earth just with a cushion in contrast to her usual depiction with a throne. The virtue of humility was propagated especially by St. Francis of Assisi and found its way into painting since the 1350s in the wake of the Black Death.
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