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1437

Virgin and Child

Domenico di Bartolo (Domenico di Bartolo Ghezzi)

Italian (active Siena and Perugia), first documented 1420, last documented 1444-45

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The trellis of red and white roses recalls a passage from the twelfth-century writer Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: "Mary was . . . a white rose for chastity and a red rose for charity."

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