Why it matters
The Virgin offers the Child a red carnation, symbol of his future Passion, but he ignores it, busy holding a pear, a symbol of original sin.
Did you know?
- It is signed and dated 1516.
- It is painted on parchment mounted on panel.
- It entered the Bavarian collection in 1802.
Based on the French Wikipedia article La Madone à l'œillet (Dürer) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
