The Cambrai Madonna, also called Notre-Dame de Grace, is a small Italo-Byzantine painting of the Virgin made around 1340, following the Eleusa or Virgin of Tenderness icon type, with roots scholars trace to Tuscan painting of around 1300. Brought to Cambrai in 1450, it was believed to be an original work by Saint Luke with Mary herself as the model, and became a venerated relic credited with miraculous healing for pilgrims; it was widely copied across Italy and northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries and influenced Florentine sculpture of the 1440s and 1450s. It remains in Cambrai Cathedral in France. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Year Created LocationCambrai Cathedral, France 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
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1. Cambrai Madonna (Wikipedia)
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c. 1340
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The painting is in tempera on a cedar panel, now backed by a modern board
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Cambrai Cathedral, France
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The Cambrai Madonna, also called Notre-Dame de Grace, is a small Italo-Byzantine painting of the Virgin made around 1340, following the Eleusa or Virgin of Tenderness icon type, with roots scholars trace to Tuscan painting of around 1300.
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