Deipara Virgo
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| Artist | Ambrosius Benson |
|---|---|
| Date | 1530 |
| Museum | KMSKA (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen) |
| Accession | 262 |
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 131 × 108 cm |
| Sheet sizes | 8×10 in, 11×14 in, 16×20 in, 18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in |
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A pagan poet's line lies across a red skirt, beneath Our Lady, crowned, and the bare Christ Child. The woman at the left lets her ribbon fall there, one of a crowd of grave faces carrying words, and the KMSKA transcribes it: AM NOVA PROGENIES CELO. The line is Virgil's, from the Fourth Eclogue, which the Loeb renders as a new generation descending from heaven on high, just after the Virgin returns. The Princeton Dante Project notes that Dante took that Virgin for Astraea, Justice, and that the verse needed little rearranging to become a Christian prophecy. Ambrosius Benson letters the pagan's hope low, and sets its answer above.
Sources: KMSKA, Antwerp, 'Deipara Virgo', inv. 262, read 2026-09-24 · Virgil, Eclogues 4.4-10, Loeb Classical Library 63 (H. R. Fairclough trans.), read 2026-09-24 · Princeton Dante Project, commentary on Purgatorio XXII 70-72, read 2026-09-24 · Flemish Art Collection, Flemish Primitives, 'Deipara Virgo', read 2026-09-24
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 13,624 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.