ANGELS OF THE ANDES
The Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with Two Saints
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The Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with Two Saints

A quieter, at-home Marian scene — Mary and two attendant saints gathered around the infant Christ.

Work
Oil on canvas
Artist / creator
Cusco School (anonymous)
Origin & date
Peru (Cuzco), colonial period
Held by
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Format

The full-resolution scan — yours to print, study, and keep.

Size

$24.00

The story

Rather than the enthroned, crowned format of the great pilgrimage Virgins, this canvas shows a more intimate adoration scene — Mary kneeling toward the Christ Child, flanked by two saints in a compressed, close composition built for private contemplation rather than public procession.

That register — devotional rather than triumphal — was just as common in colonial Andean households as the grand gold-leaf icons; this collection tries to hold both kinds of image, not just the most spectacular ones.

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