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, ...

Its brash, flamboyant painting tradition is the subject of “Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks,” a broad survey now at the Dallas Museum of Art.

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 ...