Madre della Consolazione

Madre della Consolazione is a tempera painting created by Greek painter Nikolaos Tzafouris.

He is considered one of the most important painters because he introduced two prototypes that were mass produced by Cretan workshops.

Madre della Consolazione is very important because it served as a prototype for workshops on the island and it was heavily copied.

Famous Greek painter Nikolaos Gripiotis and his contemporaries mass-produced the prototype.

The young Christ child is held gently by his majestic heavenly mother.

The Virgin and Christ child face Rome looking at the holy city from Constantinople.

[4] The work of art was part of the collection of the Morsink Icon Gallery in Amsterdam until 2016.

Scholars denoted that the work featured similar floral punched motifs that are prevalent in the halos of a signed version in Tzafouris's Pietà painting.