The Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George serves the same function of being a devotional piece to the Virgin Mary as the Rottgen Pieta. The Rottgen Pieta dates circa 1300 and was created by painted wood. The Virgin Mary is depicted in complete opposite ways in each of the artworks. In the Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George, the artist shows the Virgin Mary as a strong, imperial mother by draping her in a dark and bold purple robe. The artist also utilizes hierarchy of scale and placement to show her dominance by placing her in the center of the paper underneath God’s hands and by having her be larger in size than the two Saints on either side of her.
The Virgin Mary is shown as being divine by the large, golden
The Virgin Mary is shown as being divine by the large, golden