Madonna on a Crescent Moon in Hortus Conclusus – Renaissance Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality St. Raphael and it is just charming

and it is just charming with the shell pink

pick a frame you like that goes with your room

but one of peace and beauty

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Madonna on a Crescent Moon in Hortus Conclusus – Renaissance Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality St. Raphael and it is just charmingThis exquisite painting was done by an unknown master in Cologne, Germany, sometime around 1450. The phrase Hortus Conclusus is Latin, meaning literally "enclosed garden." At their root, both words in hortus conclusus signify linguistically to enclosure. The term was used to refer to the Virgin Mary in Medieval and Renaissance poetry and art, both as a title and a description of her. It was used widely in paintings and illuminated manuscripts starting