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Virgin and Child with Four Saints
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About this work
Mary and Jesus are seen in front of a wall in a garden that alludes to the Garden of Paradise. They are depicted between four saints: Saint Catherine, John the Evangelist, Jodocus, and Mary Magdalene. The saints wear costumes fashionable around 1475 to 1480. The hanging is said to come from the parish church in St. Lawrence in Nuremberg, Franconia, Bavaria, one of the most important in the commercial city. The appearance of Jodocus may indicate that the textile may have been donated by a wealthy citizen of the same name.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineVirgin and Child with Four Saints, c. 1500. Germany or Switzerland, Upper Rhine. Tapestry weave: linen warp, wool and silk wefts; overall: 78.7 x 154.9 cm (31 x 61 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection, 1939.162
