Venetian School, circa 1510
The Madonna and Child with Saints Leonard and Ursula
Oil on panel
61 x 80cm (24 x 31 1/2in)
Private collection
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and
Child is often the name of a work
of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means
"My Lady" in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother
Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the world
including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, South America and the Philippines.
Paintings known as icons are also an important tradition of the Orthodox Church
and often show the Mary and the Christ Child. They are found particularly in
Eastern Europe, Russia, Egypt, the Middle East and India. More on The Madonna and Child
Leonard of Noblac (or of Limoges or Noblet; also known as Lienard, Linhart, Leonhard, Léonard, Leonardo, Annard) (died 559 AD), is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in Haute-Vienne, in the Limousin (region) of France.
According to unreliable sources, he was a courtier who was converted by St. Remigius, refused the offer of a See from his godfather, King Clovis I, and became a monk at Micy. He lived as a hermit at Limoges and was rewarded by the king with all the land he could ride around on a donkey in a day for his prayers, which were believed to have brought the Queen through a difficult delivery safely. He founded Noblac monastery on the land so granted him, and it grew into the town of Saint-Leonard. He remained there evangelizing the surrounding area until his death. He is invoked by women in labor and by prisoners of war because of the legend that Clovis promised to release every captive Leonard visited. More on Leonard
Saint Ursula (Latin for "little
female bear") is a Romano-British Christian saint. Because of the lack of
definite information about her and the anonymous group of holy virgins who
accompanied her and on some uncertain date were killed at Cologne, they were
removed from the Roman Martyrology and their commemoration was omitted from the
General Roman Calendar when it was revised in 1969.
Her legend, is that she was a princess who, at the request
of her father King Dionotus of Dumnonia in south-west Britain, set sail to join
her future husband, the pagan governor Conan Meriadoc of Armorica, along with
11,000 virginal handmaidens. After a miraculous storm brought them over the sea
in a single day to a Gaulish port, Ursula declared that before her marriage she
would undertake a pan-European pilgrimage. She headed for Rome with her
followers and persuaded the Pope, Cyriacus, and Sulpicius, bishop of Ravenna,
to join them. After setting out for Cologne, which was being besieged by Huns,
all the virgins were beheaded in a massacre. The Huns' leader fatally shot
Ursula with a bow and arrow in about 383. More Saint Ursula
Venetian school (art). From the later part of the 15th century, Venice had a distinctive,
thriving and influential art scene. Beginning with the work of Giorgione (c.
1477–1510), and the workshop of Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516),
major artists of the Venetian school included Titian (1489–1576),
Tintoretto (1518–1594), Veronese (1528–1588)
and the Bassano (1510–1592). Considered to bring a primacy of color
over line, this tradition was seen to contrast with the Mannerism then
prevalent in the rest of Italy, and the Venetian style is viewed as having had
a great influence on the subsequent development of painting. More
on Venetian school
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