page_title: Virgin of Quito
section_title: External links
hierarchical_section_title: Virgin of Quito / External links
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hausaltar mit der Virgen de Quito. Holz, farbig gefasst; Ekuador, 18.–20. Jh.; Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin English: House altar with the Virgen de Quito. Wood, polychromy. Ecuador, 18th–20th century; Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
context_page_description: The Virgin of Quito — also known as the Virgin of the Apocalypse, Winged Virgin of Quito, Dancing Madonna, and Legarda's Virgin — is a wooden sculpture by the Quiteño artist Bernardo de Legarda which has become the most representative example of the Quito School of art, developed in the Ecuadorian capital during the Spanish colonial era. This particular Virgin became a popular cult image which is still venerated — via innumerable replicas — throughout the northern Andes.
  The original 1734 work was conceived and commissioned as a Lady of the Immaculate Conception and is venerated at the altar of the Church and Convent of San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador.
context_section_description: Photo of the original Virgin in the Church of San Francisco, Quito.
  Photo & description of copy in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
caption: A replica Virgin of Quito in a Berlin museum.
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