Motherhood: Madonna and Child
Image displayed with permission of Ethiopian Manuscript Digital Archive
Motherhood: Madonna and Child
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript likely made in Gojjam, Western Ethiopia, and dated to 1650-1749. You can view this painting in the manuscript Ethiopian Manuscript Digital Archive, HMML Project ID EMDA, Manuscript No. 237, s. 4b, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page.
- This painting of PEMM Story ID 7011 depicts 1 moment (or episode) in the story. The description of the episode in this painting, along with its keyword(s), is:
- 1. Motherhood: Madonna and child (full). The object(s) are handkerchief; book; flower; plant; jewelry. The living being(s) are Mary; Jesus Christ; Michael; Gabriel; angel.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: Our Lady Mary with her beloved Son; Saint Michael; Saint Gabriel.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 225. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 227.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 739.
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