Catalogue No. 15
The Bethlehem Madonna
The Mother of God and the Child, both crowned, on a dark panel lit with gold.
- Material
- Paint and gilding on wooden panel
- Technique
- Hand-painted
- Made in
- Bethlehem, the Holy Land
- Dimensions
- Measurements on request
- Dispatch
- Within 48 hours, by EMS
The Subject
Mary is shown as Queen of Heaven, holding the Child, who carries the orb of the world. The letters ΜΡ ΘΥ beside her halo abbreviate Μήτηρ Θεοῦ, Mother of God, the title the Church gave her at Ephesus in 431.
The Making
The crowns and the borders of the robes are picked out in gold over a deep red ground, and the panel's carved, irregular edges frame the figures like the mouth of a grotto.
Chosen by the house from the workshops of the forty Bethlehem families it works with, and sent to you from Old Caritas Street.
Every order leaves Bethlehem within 48 hours, sent by EMS Express Mail Service. Your tracking number is emailed to you the day the parcel is handed over.
Because each piece is packed and sent by hand from the Holy Land, we do not accept returns or exchanges once an order has shipped. If anything arrives broken, email a photograph to info@saint-michael-store.com and we will send a replacement.
