Virgin of Bethlehem
Cusco School (anonymous), c. 1740–70
$270
Print check at 18 x 24 in: 157 dpi, good. Trimmed 5.6% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Unlike the shrine-portrait Virgins named for a specific pilgrimage town, the Virgin of Bethlehem is a devotional type tied to a place in the Gospel story rather than a located colonial statue — Mary as the mother who has just given birth, gowned in the same brocateado gold as her pilgrimage sisters. The type let Cusco workshops apply their signature technique to a purely narrative, rather than site-specific, subject — proof that the gold-leaf visual language had become a general vocabulary for holiness, deployable on almost any Marian theme a patron requested.
- Maker
- Cusco School (anonymous)
- Date
- c. 1740–70
- Medium of the original
- Oil on canvas
- Original held by
- MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, via Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00154
| Picture | 18 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 19.6 x 25.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 333 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.9% |
| 11 x 14 in | 257 | Excellent | Trimmed 9.8% |
| 12 x 16 in | 236 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.6% |
| 12 x 18 in | 222 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.9% |
| 16 x 24 in | 166 | Good | Trimmed 5.9% |
| 18 x 24 in | 157 | Good | Trimmed 5.6% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 133 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 111 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 94 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 78 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 66 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,834 x 4,001 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 42, lights 186 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 3.85
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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