Curator Keith Christiansen on "Madonna and Child," a painting by Berlinghiero.
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Why is the virgin Mary so sad in this piece?
"It’s an expression that can be dead, unless we engage ourselves in it."
Keith Christiansen
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Keith Christiansen
John Pope-Hennessy Chairman, Department of European Paintings
John Pope-Hennessy Chairman, Department of European Paintings
Photography by Mark Morosse
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Consortium, Edward Barbieri, Director, 'I sat down under his shadow' by Edward C Bairstow © Oxford University Press 1925. All rights reserved. Recorded 1998 on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Deux-Elles Limited, DXL827
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Berlinghiero
possibly 1230s