In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the cult of St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary, became especially popular, giving rise to a number of iconographic interpretations of her role in sacred history. In this image, the Virgin appears as an 'embryo' within her mother's womb, a reference to the belief in the Immaculate Conception. Initial G with St. Anne with the embryo of the Virgin in her womb This image shows the reverse of a cutting from a choir book with an historiated initial.
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