Madonna of the Pomegranate

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Madonna of the Pomegranate is a Renaissance painting by Sandro Botticelli depicting the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child with a symbolic pomegranate, surrounded by angels.

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Label Occurrences
Madonna of the Pomegranate canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Renaissance painting
painting
artForm easel painting
artHistoricalPeriod 15th century
artisticSchool Florentine school
artStyle Panel painting
Tempera painting
countryOfOrigin Italy
creator Sandro Botticelli
culturalContext Florentine school
surface form: Florentine Renaissance
depicts Child Jesus
surface form: Christ Child

Madonna and Child
Virgin Mary
angels
pomegranate
features central enthroned Madonna
haloed figures
kneeling angels
symbolic fruit
genre religious art
hasArtisticTechnique delicate linear drawing
subtle chiaroscuro
hasColorPalette deep blues
gold tones
rich reds
hasComposition centralized symmetrical arrangement
hasFigureCount multiple angels
hasFunction devotional image
hasGenre Marian painting
hasIconography Christ Child holding fruit
Queen of Heaven
hasInfluenceOn later Marian iconography
hasMaterial wood panel
hasMedium tempera
hasPerspective shallow spatial depth
hasSymbol pomegranate
iconographicTheme Madonna and Child
movement Renaissance
surface form: Early Renaissance

Renaissance Italy
surface form: Italian Renaissance
originalLanguageTitle Italian
portrays devotional image of Mary
infant Jesus blessing
religion Christianity
subjectHeading Jesus Christ in art
Virgin Mary in art
symbolism pomegranate as symbol of Christ’s Passion
pomegranate as symbol of resurrection
pomegranate as symbol of unity of the Church

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Sandro Botticelli notableWork Madonna of the Pomegranate
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi notableWork Madonna of the Pomegranate
subject surface form: Sandro Botticelli