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==Description==
Elisabetta Sirani's penetration for her ''Virgin and Child'' is much different from the tradition that [[Mary, mother of Jesus|Mary]] as the [[Queen of Heaven|Heaven's Queen]], but as a real mother who take care of her child.
 
The portrait signifies that the Virgin wearing a servant's [[Bolognese]] style turban as she stares her [[Jesus|Christ]] child as the Christ childthat crowns her the crown of rosesgarland as she lean down her head to receive this crownit.
 
On the part of the Virgin's sleeve the artist's brushwork is easy to observe when observing the pale sleeve. As its texture was thickly applied with paint.
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==Legacy==
Sirani's painting ''Virgin and Child'' of 1663, now inexhibited the collection ofat the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DCD.C., was selected for the [[United States Postal Service]] Christmas Holiday Stamp series in October 1994 for the [[United States Postal Service]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Christmas Holiday Stamps |url=http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/christmas-stamps-2013.htm |website=United States Postal Service: Our History |publisher=United States Postal Service |accessdate=8 March 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402141102/http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/christmas-stamps-2013.htm |archivedate=2 April 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref> This piece of artwork was chosen for the series for the first time that a work byof a woman artist chosenwas for the seriesfeatured.
 
==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite web|url=https://nmwa.org/works/virgin-and-child|title=Virgin and Child|publisher=[[National Museum of Women in the Arts]]|accessdate=27 February 2019}}
 
==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Virgin and Child (Elisabetta Sirani)|Virgin and Child}}
 
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