Tag: Madonna and 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Madonna delle stelle (c.1575-1585)

Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Madonna delle stelle (The Madonna of the Stars) c.1575–1585 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 72.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This is one of a small group of loosely related paintings of the Madonna and Child…

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