Madonna and Child
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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
Among them is a Buddha-like woman breast-feeding an infant in the manner of a Christian Madonna and Child and posed before the Los Angeles skyline, where East and West meet.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2024
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
Above his desk hung a gold crucifix and an enormous painting of a Madonna and Child under a fig tree.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022
There is a crucifix mounted on the wall, a flag of a cross draped over the lectern, and a few paintings of the Madonna and Child hanging in the back.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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