Madonna mit Kind

Adriaen Isenbrandt painted this image of the Virgin and Child around 1520, one of the most fundamental subjects in European devotional art. The intimate bond between mother and child served as a focus for prayer and meditation. The painting is in the Museum Catharijneconvent Adriaen Isenbrandt worked in Bruges following Gerard David's style, producing refined devotional panels for the prosperous merchant market The Madonna and Child was the most ubiquitous devotional subject of medieval and Ren

The devotional composition is rendered with attention to the expressive and contemplative qualities that served the painting's function as an aid to prayer and meditation.