The Virgin and Child with Two Angels
Artist / maker
Meester van Frankfurt (painters (artists))Date
1495Period
15th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
The Virgin and Child with Two Angels is a fairly typical example of fifteenth-century panel painting. The wall on which Mary is sitting refers to the hortus conclusus, or private garden, a symbol of Mary’s Immaculate Conception. The fruit an angel is offering to Jesus points to his role as the ‘new Adam’ and Messiah. The panel is ascribed to…
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The Virgin and Child with Two Angels is a fairly typical example of fifteenth-century panel painting. The wall on which Mary is sitting refers to the hortus conclusus, or private garden, a symbol of Mary’s Immaculate Conception. The fruit an angel is offering to Jesus points to his role as the ‘new Adam’ and Messiah. The panel is ascribed to the Master of Frankfurt. This anonymous master worked in Antwerp between 1490 and 1515. His name is taken from two altarpieces found in Frankfurt.
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