... beginning of the Renaissance (top) and at the end of the Renaissance (bottom).Figure 8. The percentage of portrayals of the Madonna and Child in which the Madonna, the Child and the Madonna and ... symmetry in a highly consistent fashion. The Madonna and Child The Madonna and Child is another complex image, and as with the Annunciation,two major figures, the Madonna and the newborn Christ Child, ... Madonna and Child,or the Madonna with Saints. Such images allow detailed statistics to be collected and analysed, as a test of ideas about the nature of symmetry and asymmetry in art. Nevertheless,...