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Tender Bonds: Children in Renaissance Art
Virgin and Child
Gallery 953 · Gerard David · 1490–1523 · Met web page
In this intimate workshop painting, the infant Christ embraces his mother as they touch cheeks in a gesture of familial love—a portable devotional image for private prayer.
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Stay in gallery 953 and look for this small panel nearby.