Mary (mother of Jesus) - Image Gallery

Image Gallery

See also: Life of the Virgin
For a larger gallery, please see: Marian image gallery

  • The oldest-known image of Mary depicts her nursing the Infant Jesus. Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome (2nd century)

  • Theotokos Panachranta, from the 11th century Gertrude Psalter

  • Visitation, from the St Vaast Altarpiece by Jacques Daret, 1434–1435

  • Adoration of the Magi, Rubens, 1634

  • Black Madonna and Child, Axum, Ethiopia

  • Madonna of humility by Fra Angelico, c. 1430.

  • Flight into Egypt by Giotto c. 1304

  • Lamentation by Pietro Lorenzetti, Assisi Basilica, 1310–1329

  • Assumption statue, 1808 Ghaxaq, Malta

  • Inside of the Tomb of Mary, on the foothills of Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

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