Part of early 13th century window at Chartres cathedral depicting the life of St Nicholas. These panels depict the birth of St Nicholas, and his first bath. The bottom quatrefoil shows two merchant, merchants are also depicted in the bottom corner panels. The top quatrefoil relates to the legend than St Nicholas would only feed from his mother's breast on Wednesday and Friday.
Children Theme Pages
Images of children.
Detail of a young girl with the hand of Saint Remigius is from the tempera painting of the "Lamentation over the dead Christ" (c1365) by Giottino. Is located in the Uffizi Gallery Florence.
Stained glass panel, c1417 at Chartres Cathedral, telling the story where St Nicholas raises three boys butchered by an innkeeper and his wife.
15th century stained glass depicting the Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus. Church of Saint-Taurin, Evreux.
This small terracotta figure of the young St John the Baptist, now in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, was originally housed in the Opera di San Giovanni, the administrative body of the Florentine Baptistery. It is attributed to Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, whose work bridges the elegance of the late Gothic with the emerging naturalism of the early Renaissance.
This is part of a painting (c1475) by Neroccio di Landi depicting a scene from the life of Saint Benedict. The painting references a supposed event where as a child Benedict's nurse broke a household item and he repaired it.
Domenico Ghirlandaio’s Christ Blessing the Children, painted around 1486 for the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence, exemplifies the serene balance and human warmth that characterize the mature Florentine Renaissance.
Early French Renaissance tomb in Tours cathedral for the young children of King Charles VIII of France and Anne of Brittany.
Small boy carrying a wicker basket and pulling at his mother's dress. This is part of a sculpture by Jehan Soulas, on the choir screen at Chartres Cathedal depicting Mary being presented in the Temple.
This finely modelled figure group forms part of Jehan Soulas’s celebrated Renaissance ensemble depicting the Birth of the Virgin in the ambulatory of Chartres Cathedral. Created in 1521, the scene shows a maidservant kneeling as she prepares to wash the newly delivered infant Mary, a moment drawn from late medieval and early Renaissance visual tradition in which domestic attendants play an active role in the nativity narrative.
Child filling an incense censer. This is part of a larger sequence of polychromatic images at Amiens Cathedral of the subject of Jesus Cleansing the Temple.
Three children brought back to life by St Nicholas after having been butchered for meat during a famine. Detail of French Renaissence stained glass (1525) in Saint-Etienne Beauvais.
16th century sculpture in the church of Saint-Pierre Meusnes in France, on the subject of St Anne Teaching the Virgin to read.
Stained glass donor image (c1555) of the children of Sir Thoams and Elizabeth Cave at Stanford-on-Avon. This forms part of a row of donor images above the main 19th century panels of the east window.
Mourners at foot of memorial to Thomas Cave (d1558), Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire.
The mourners here are represent by stylized figures of the 14 children of Thomas Cave. It is not known how many survived to adulthood, nor what age they were as often children were represented as idealized adults.
Male children of Sir Thomas Andrews (d1564) as weepers at foot of tomb. Church Charwelton, Northamptonshire.
Female children of Sir Thomas Andrews (d1564) as weepers at foot of tomb. Church Charwelton, Northamptonshire.
Children of Sir John Throckmorton (d1580) and his wife Marjorie. Coughton Warwickshire.
Monument to Thomas Wylmer (d1580) and family. This brass monument shows Thomas and his wife kneeling at a prayer table surrounded by their children.
Part of the George Shirley (d1588) and family monument at Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire. This was made by the Royley brothers in 1598.