Christ taking leave of his Mother

[5] It may be depicted in Christ Blessing with the Virgin in Prayer, a work by Robert Campin of the early 15th century,[6] and is painted several times by Gerard David at the end of the century (Dublin, Basel, Munich, Metropolitan New York);[7] many lesser artists were painting the subject by then, especially in Germany.

Awareness of the subject was further spread by prints, by Albrecht Dürer in his very popular woodcut series the on the Life of the Virgin (ca.

Both of these works have a lush forest background, a swooning Virgin, and show the female figures in largely contemporary dress.

[13] One of the earliest of the few Italian depictions, an early Correggio of about 1514 (National Gallery, London) clearly (under x-rays) used Dürer's composition as a starting point, before changing it around.

[14] Lorenzo Lotto (1521, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) also painted the subject, and there is a Lucas Cranach the Elder (ca 1520) in Vienna.