A medieval artwork depicting the Madonna and Child; the Madonna holds her left hand up toward her chest, holding a peach between her thumb and forefinger. The Madonna is painted half-length, wearing a red dress with a gold collar, and a bright blue head covering. Over the head covering is a gold crown, surrounded by a halo. All around the circumference of the halo are gold stars. The Child is portrayed upright, with his mother's right arm curving around behind him to hold him at the front. He reaches across her with his right hand to grasp her veil. His right hand is lifted in benediction. He wears a carmine-colored necklace of beads from which dangles a cross of the same material. He too has a gold crown and halo. He is swaddled in a cloth of orange or gold with red trim.

The Virgin Mary with Christ Child and Fruit / Madonna of the Peach, c. 1440?, by #CaterinadeVigri (or #CaterinaVigri, #StCatherineofBologna; Italian, 1413-1463). Location unknown; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca... #nuntastic #artherstory #womenartists

An illumination in a capital letter "C" of the head of a woman wearing a wimple. The illuminated capital is within a 2-page spread of handwritten Latin in dark and lighter brown, and also red, colors.

St Clare of Assisi, C15th, by #CaterinaDeVigri / #StCatherineOfBologna (Italian, 1413-1463), who died #otd, Mar 9. Catherine of Bologna’s Breviary, fol. 149v, Corpus Domini, Bologna via artherstory.net/sister-cater... #womenartists #nuntastic #CatholicSistersWeek #FeastofStCatherineofBologna

A 15th-century painting of a Madonna (head encircled by stars, wearing a red dress, a blue headscarf and a gold crown) holding a peach in her left hand, and encircling a standing Christ Child with her right arm and hand. The child wears a gold crown and a red necklace with a red cross dangling from it.

The Virgin Mary with Christ Child and Fruit / Madonna of the Peach, c, 1440?, by #CaterinadeVigri (#CaterinaVigri, #StCatherineofBologna; Italian, 1413-1463). Location unknown; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...

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