Image Gallery
- See also: Life of the Virgin
- For a larger gallery, please see: Marian image gallery
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The oldest-known image of Mary depicts her nursing the Infant Jesus. Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome (2nd century)
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Theotokos Panachranta, from the 11th century Gertrude Psalter
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Visitation, from the St Vaast Altarpiece by Jacques Daret, 1434–1435
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Adoration of the Magi, Rubens, 1634
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Black Madonna and Child, Axum, Ethiopia
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Madonna of humility by Fra Angelico, c. 1430.
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Flight into Egypt by Giotto c. 1304
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Lamentation by Pietro Lorenzetti, Assisi Basilica, 1310–1329
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Assumption statue, 1808 Ghaxaq, Malta
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Inside of the Tomb of Mary, on the foothills of Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
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