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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Song to the Madonna is a 1500 ink by German 15th Century, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This page shows a small black-and-white picture of a woman sitting on a throne with a child on her lap. She’s dressed in simple robes, and the background is plain. Around the picture, there’s a lot of fancy, swirling text and designs that look hand-drawn, filling the edges like a border. The text is in an old language, and it’s all about praising the Madonna. The picture and words together feel like a prayer or a song, printed as one. This is an example of a woodcut.
This 15th-century German artist carved vivid religious scenes into metal and wood, then hand-painted them in bright, symbolic colors.
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