Madonna of Veveri

The Veveri Madonna, also called the Madonna of Veveri (Czech: Madona z Veveří, German: Madonna von Eichhorn ), is an tempera painting by the unknown Moravian, Bohemian (or probably Italian) (active in Bohemian lands) artist generally called Master of Vyšší Brod. The altarpiece was commissioned after 1344 by Margrave John Henry of Luxembourg for the romanesque church of Assumption of Our Lady, In the neighborhood of royal Veveří castle in Brno, Moravia, Czech Republic. Exhibited in Diocesan Museum in Brno. The panel was one of the first Madonnas painted by the artist. Albert Kutal a Czech scholar called it "a truly rare and extraordinary work".