  About the Artwork
  
  
  The Virgin of the Rose Garden unites three devotional subjects, all popular after 1400 and related to the worship of the Virgin Mary: the Virgin Mary attended by virgin saints (among them Ursula, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, and Cecilia), the coronation of the Virgin, and the mystic marriage of Saint Catherine to the Christ child. The walled garden setting, with its realistic enumeration of flowers and plants familiar in Northern Europe at this time, refers both to the Near Eastern concept of a lush, floral Paradise and the Christian interpretation of the Old Testament's Song of Songs, which equates Mary's virginity with an enclosed garden. In the background the artist has depicted the city of Bruges prior to 1485, when another level was added to the city's belfry.
  
  
  Title
  Virgin of the Rose Garden
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1475 and 1480
  
  Artist
  Master of the St. Lucy Legend
  
  
  
  Life Dates
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  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Flemish
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on oak panel
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 31 1/8 × 23 5/8 inches (79.1 × 60 cm)
  Framed: 38 1/8 × 31 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (96.8 × 80.3 × 8.9 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  European Painting
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  26.387
  
  
  Copyright
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