Virgin and Child with an Angel. Virgin and Child with an Angel, Sandro Botticelli, 1470s

All look down at a bowl of grapes with grain, symbols grapes and wheat, symbols of the eucharist, and the blood and body of christ’s sacrifice. While selecting some wheat, the accepts her child’s fate. Object Type: painting. Genre: religious art. Date: 1470s. Dimensions: height: 85.2 cm (33.5 in); width: 65 cm (25.5 in). Medium: tempera and oil on wood. Depicted People: Christ Child, Virgin Mary. Collection: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. MadonnaEucarestiaBotticelli2