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Madonna of humility
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"Madonna dell'Umiltà" redirects here. For the church in Pistoia, see Madonna dell'Umiltà, Pistoia.
A Madonna of humility or Virgin of humility is a depiction in art of the Virgin Mary sitting on the ground, or upon a low cushion. She usually holds the Christ Child in her lap, making it one form of the Madonna and Child.[1] The iconography originated in the 14th century, and was most common in that and the following century.
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Initially mostly using a gold ground style, when painted backgrounds came to be preferred in the 15th century, this pose is very common in images of the Virgin in a hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden", where the Virgin often sits on the flowery grass.