Madonna And Child - Malmö, Sweden
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dtrebilc
N 55° 36.416 E 012° 59.942
33U E 373949 N 6164149
This statue of the Madonna and Child from 1525 is in a niche on the corner of Jörgen Kocks’ house who was master of the mint.
Waymark Code: WMHKJW
Location: Skåne, Sweden
Date Posted: 07/20/2013
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At the time it was erected Malmö was part of Denmark rather than Sweden as it is to-day. Jörgen Kocks became very wealth as Master of the Danish mint and built this fine house next to Soro Monastery. The style of his house looks like a church and is fitting that there should be a statue of the Maddona and Child. There is a date of 1525 underneath the statue.
This Wikipedia article states “Images of the Madonna and the Madonna and Child or Virgin and Child are pictorial or sculptured representations of Mary, Mother of Jesus, either alone, or more frequently, with the infant Jesus. These images are central icons of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianitywhere Mary remains a central artistic topic.[1] No image (in either the Western or the Eastern Church) permeates Christian art as the image of Madonna and Child.[2]
While Mary, the Mother of Jesus, may be referred to as "the Madonna" in other contexts, in art the term is applied specifically to an artwork in which Mary, with or without the infant Jesus, is the focus, and central figure of the picture. Mary and the infant Jesus may be surrounded by adoring angels or worshiping saints. Images that have a narrative content, including those of the many scenes which make up the Life of the Virgin, are not correctly referred to as "Madonnas" but are given a title that reflects the scene such as the Annunciation to Mary.”