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The Golden Mother of Good Counsel of Essen (Latin: Mater Auream de Bonii Consilii in Essendiæ) is the eldest Roman Catholic sculpture of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The image is a wooden core covered with sheets of thin gold leaf and is part of the treasury of Essen Cathedral in Germany. The statue measures 74 centimetres (29 inches) in height; at the base it is 27 centimetres (10.6 inches) wide.

Dated around the year 980 A.D., it is both the oldest known sculpture of the Madonna and the oldest free-standing medieval sculpture north of the Alps, and is also one of the few major works of art to survive from Ottonian times. To this day it remains an object of veneration and symbol of identity for the population of the Ruhr Area. It is the only full-length survival from what appears to have been a common form of statue among the wealthiest churches and abbeys of 10th and …

摘自英文维基百科「Golden Madonna of Essen」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。