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Madonna of the Rose Bower Stefan Lochner, 1440
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Madonna of the Rose Bower

Stefan Lochner · 1440

Why it's great

Mary sits in a garden of roses with the baby Jesus while angels play music and hold up a green cloth behind her. Stefan Lochner painted it in Cologne in about 1440, in a sweet, storybook style.

Where to see it

📍 Wallraf–Richartz MuseumAltstadt-Nord, Germany

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About the artist

Stefan Lochner

1410–1451 · born in Meersburg · died in Cologne

Stefan Lochner was a German painter born in about 1410, who worked in Cologne. His sweet, gold-and-jewel-bright pictures, like the Madonna of the Rose Bower, made him the most famous painter of Cologne. He died in 1451.

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