# Virgin and Child

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR, Spanish](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d>)
- Date: 1251-1300
- Technique: Marble

## Commentary

In Catalonia, Gothic sculpture begins with Master Bartomeu, author of this marble statue of the Virgin on the center pier of the main porch of Tarragona cathedral \(c. 1277\). This extraordinarily delicate figure is carved in a style that can best be described as idealized archaism.

## Related artworks

- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/adoration-of-the-magi-r84326df68ce961>)
- [Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/annunciation-r7848f6e173b24f>)
- [Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/annunciation-rb270c055f58b8f>)
- [Archangel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/archangel-r4dcd4851a45fa6>)
- [Bileam and his Ass](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/bileam-and-his-ass-r43b1a27a1d6dae>)
- [Burial and Resurrection](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/burial-and-resurrection-r8fa8b1abafaf44>)
- [Capital](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/capital-r19d57f9228d19c>)
- [Capital](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/capital-r295db4c18e0c4d>)
- [Capital](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/capital-r32cdd0f177ddf8>)
- [Capital](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/capital-r50b9f45f4ce71b>)
- [Capital](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/capital-r5ceede5cdabb09>)
- [Capital](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/medieval-sculptor-spanish-r2f8ea34ddebe8d/capital-r5d21cc5141f271>)

## Attribution

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