But don’t worry! While the Holy Child has been rendered with a tiny adult man’s face, the cherries held in Mary’s other hand symbolize purity, sweetness, and the sacrifice of Christ’s blood.

According to Hanna, he began collecting Indian paintings around the time of the Indian Rebellion (1857-1859). See letter from Henry Bathurst Hanna to Charles Lang Freer, dated April 10, 1908 [sic, ...

But it must be remembered that exquisite and laboured finish is the characteristic of the Flemish School; and that Rubens was different at different periods of his life. . . . It is possible that this ...

Recently restored and currently the focus of an exhibition at the Louvre, Jan van Eyck’s dazzling painting depicts a wealthy 15th-century official next to a vividly rendered Virgin, the Christ ...