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A woman sits facing us on a stone bench with her hands in prayer over the head of a baby who sleeps, propped up between the woman’s knees in this vertical painting. The wood panel on which this is painted is framed by carved, curling gold vines encircling two small people in the upper corners. All the people have pale skin, and plate-like, shiny gold halos seem to rest atop the woman and child’s heads. The woman tilts her head to her left, our right, to look toward the baby with lowered eyes. Her skin is smooth and a translucent white cloth covers her head. She wears a cherry-red dress under…

Madonna and Child in a Garden

Cosmè Tura (Ferrarese, c. 1433 - 1495)

c. 1460/1470 · tempera (and possibly oil) on poplar panel

National Gallery of Art · Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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