# Virign and Child in a Panoramic Landscape

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MASTER of the Parrot](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-parrot-r3c99ca4b2968f4>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on panel, 62 x 40 cm

## Commentary

Parrots were exotic in mediaeval Europe and therefore highly prized in princely courts, but only rarely depicted by artists. Generally green and not clearly distinguished from the parakeet, parrots symbolise young love. However, due to the parrot&#39;s ability, according to virtually all mediaeval zoological treatises and encyclopaedia, to utter the word ave in greeting, the first word spoken by the archangel Gabriel to Mary during the Annunciation, they were also associated with the Virgin as an allegorical symbol of her purity and virginity.

## Related artworks

- [Mary Magdalen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-parrot-r3c99ca4b2968f4/mary-magdalen-r6a72740f104ef0>)
- [Mary Magdalen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-parrot-r3c99ca4b2968f4/mary-magdalen-rdef5cd0750dc58>)
- [Virgin and Child in a Panoramic Landscape \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-parrot-r3c99ca4b2968f4/virgin-and-child-in-a-panoramic-landscape-detail-r0a948d062d35a5>)
- [Virgin with the Sleeping Christ Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-parrot-r3c99ca4b2968f4/virgin-with-the-sleeping-christ-child-rd829325a289884>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)