Madonna and Child

Michael Wolgemut was the leading painter of Nuremberg before Dürer, running the city's largest workshop and producing altarpieces, portraits, and the woodcuts for Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle. This Madonna and Child was created around 1483 and is now held at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum The Madonna and Child was the most ubiquitous devotional subject of medieval and Renaissance art, present in every church and many private homes as a focus for prayer and spiritual contemplation.

Oil on panel with the Franconian painting tradition's honest naturalism and careful craftsmanship. The work demonstrates the artistic qualities characteristic of Michael Wolgemut's period.