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Shown from the waist up, a young woman holds a baby up against her chest in this vertical painting. They both face us and have pale skin. The woman holds the baby against the right side of her chest, to our left, and she tips her slender, oval face toward him. She looks out at us with hazel eyes under thin, arched brows. She has a long nose, smooth cheeks, and a pale pink, bow mouth. The neckline and the cuffs of her garnet-red gown peek out from beneath a dark, spruce-blue, gold-edged mantle that covers her head and wraps around her body. One forearm rests along a surface marbled in red,…

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini (Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516)

c. 1480/1485 · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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