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The Virgin and Child (HUAM 1926.41)

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By Grace Acquilano '22



This Italian panel painting suggests the blurring of artistic boundaries that took place during the Crusades. Italian artists studied the artistic techniques of Byzantine icons and incorporated them into their paintings, like this one, to evoke divine presence. Therefore the visual echoes of sacred Byzantine icons remained in Italy and elsewhere and Europe for multiple generations well after the final crusade to the eastern Mediterranean.

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