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Madonna and Child

American  

noun

Fine Arts.
  1. a representation of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus.


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Others she identifies by matching them to fruits in Renaissance paintings, where they often appear in depictions of the Madonna and Child.

From Barron's Nov. 14, 2025

Duccio’s break-the-bank Madonna and Child, painted in Tuscany around 1300, now shares a case with Ingres’s painting of the same subject from 1852.

From New York Times Nov. 24, 2023

He established himself with a trilogy of films - Children, Madonna and Child, and Death and Transfiguration - in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

From BBC Oct. 7, 2023

It is still missing its Madonna and Child, so there’s a big hole in the center.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2021

The whitewashed walls were adorned with a picture of the Madonna and Child that usually hung in Ida’s kitchen.”

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

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