Tag: child

Madonna col Bambino (probably 1440s)

Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) probably 1440s Tempera on wood, gold ground, 77.5 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jacopo Bellini dominated Venetian painting in the middle years of the fifteenth century and…

Madonna adorante il Bambino che dorme (early 1460s)

Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna adorante il Bambino che dorme (Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child) early 1460s Tempera on wood, 72.4 x 46.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Asleep beneath the solemn gaze of his mother, the Christ Child’s…

Madonna col Bambino (late 1480s)

Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) late 1480s Oil on wood, 88.9 x 71.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Separated from our everyday world by a parapet, the Madonna nonetheless draws the viewer in with…

Madonna col Bambino (c.1470)

Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1470 Tempera, oil, and gold on wood, 54 x 40 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This early work by the Venetian painter, Giovanni Bellini, reveals the profound influence of…

Visión del Apocalipsis (1608-1614)

El Greco (1541-1614) Visión del Apocalipsis (The Vision of Saint John) c.1608–1614 Oil on canvas, 222.3 x 193 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The painting is a fragment from a large altarpiece commissioned for the church of the…