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The Virgin and Child with Four Holy Virgins
Also titled Maria met Jezus en vier heilige maagden
Master of the Virgo inter Virgines
c. 1495 - c. 1500
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 123.1 cm x width 101.1 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This painting is an ode to chastity. The Virgin sits in an enclosed garden, a symbol of virginity, surrounded by four other virgins (‘virgo inter virgines’). From attributes on their necklaces, they are identifiable as Saint Catherine with a wheel and sword, Saint Cecilia with an organ, Saint Barbara with a tower and Saint Ursula with a heart and arrow.
