The Virgin and the Holy Family

This is a brief selection of unusual images of the Virgin Mary or the Holy Family.

The Virgin Pregnant with Jesus:

• Piero della Francesca, Madonna del Parto (1467), Cappella del Cimitero, Monterchi, Italy, near Arezzo

Flight into Egypt:

• Gislebertus, Flight into Egypt (1120-30), sculpture for Autun Cathedral

Madonna as Advocate (Haghiosoritissa):

• Unknown Italian painter, The Madonna as Advocate (1150s), Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
  
• Simone Martini, Madonna of Mercy (1308-10), Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena
  
• Lippo Memmi, Madonna of the Recommended (1350s), fresco in the Chapel of the Corporal, Duomo, Orvieto
  
• Caravaggio, Madonna di Loreto (Madonna dei Pellegrini, 1603-05), S. Agostino, Rome

Madonna Nursing or with Young Child:

• Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Suckling Madonna (c. 1330), Palazzo Arcivescovile, Siena
  
• Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Madonna and Child (1340-45), Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
  
• Nino Pisano, Madonna del Latte (1360s), marble sculpture, S. Maria della Spina, Pisa
  
• Nursing Madonna in Très Belles Heures of the Duc the Berry (1380-90), illumination, Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er, Brussels
  
• Nursing Madonna, Très Belles Heures du Duc de Berry (c. 1380), illumination, Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Madama, Turin
  
• Jacopo Sansovino, Madonna del Parto (1518), marble sculpture, S. Agostino, Rome (second image
  
• Giovanni di Agostino, Madonna with two Angels (1500s), San Bernardino, Siena
  
• Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Mary and Child with Angels Playing Music (1675), Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Reclining Madonna:

• Arnolfo di Cambio, Madonna (1296-1302), marble sculpture meant to be a part of a Nativity group, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence

See also The Cult of the Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages (from the Metropolitan Museum, New York) and Rare Portraits of the Blessed Virgin Mary.