This delicately ornamented sculpture depicts the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ ... Although many similar statues survive from the later Middle Ages, most have lost the colors, gilding, and metal ...

In the Middle Ages scholars followed the idea from ... Blue represented the Virgin Mary in both Church and art. To the early Christians, black was associated with the devil but later it became ...

It was manufactured c. 1500 in the workshops of Limoges, France using painted enamel on copper. The plaque depicts the Virgin Mary half-length, in a cathedral-like setting, facing three-quarters to ...