The child has a small apple in one hand - an allusion to the fall from grace overcome by his birth and later sacrificial death - and is holding his own toes with the other. This gesture seems very lifelike. Despite the halo and cross nimbus, the mother and child are meant to appear as natural as possible and thereby illustrate the wonderful incarnation of god. Object Type: painting. Genre: religious art. Depicted People: Virgin Mary, Christ Child. Collection: M Leuven. Bouts, Dieric - Madonna and Child - M – Museum Leuven
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