Virgin of Bethlehem
A nativity-themed Marian type, painted with the same devotional gold as the pilgrimage Virgins.
- Work
- Oil on canvas
- Artist / creator
- Cusco School (anonymous)
- Origin & date
- Peru (Cuzco), c. 1740–70
- Held by
- MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Format
The full-resolution scan — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$24.00
The story
Unlike the shrine-portrait Virgins named for a specific pilgrimage town, the Virgin of Bethlehem is a devotional type tied to a place in the Gospel story rather than a located colonial statue — Mary as the mother who has just given birth, gowned in the same brocateado gold as her pilgrimage sisters.
The type let Cusco workshops apply their signature technique to a purely narrative, rather than site-specific, subject — proof that the gold-leaf visual language had become a general vocabulary for holiness, deployable on almost any Marian theme a patron requested.
About this reproduction
- • Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)’s open-access release.
- • Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. The heirloom frame is gold, under acrylic, with no mount.
- • Color-managed to the source scan.
- • Ships in 5–9 business days; satisfaction guarantee.
From the same collection
Our Lady of Cocharcas
The Virgin of a Peruvian mountain shrine, built up in real gold leaf.
Our Lady of Guápulo
A pilgrimage Virgin from the hills above Quito, painted in full Cusco gold.
Our Lady of Mercy, called "The Pilgrim of Quito"
The Virgin as an actual traveler — staff, cloak, and the road still in her feet.