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Panel Painting with the Crowned Nursing Virgin and the Twelve Apostles
Not on view
The inscription on the upper frame reads "Our Lady Mary with her Beloved Son." First seen in the 1450s, the iconography of the Nursing Virgin became the main motif of Ethiopian panel paintings depicting Mary for several centuries. The theme was also developed in homilies included in the synaxarion, a collection of readings for liturgical feast days. During this same period, the Crowned Virgin often also assumed the form of the Nursing Virgin, an aspect rare in many Christian traditions but well developed in Ethiopia and Egypt.
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