Shown from about the knees up, a woman, baby, and two angels crowd together in a narrow interior space pierced by three window openings. The people all have pale, peachy skin, blond hair, and translucent gold halos, and together they fill most of the space of this vertical painting. To our left, the woman perches on a pillow on a wooden chair as she holds the baby. The scrolling arm of the chair dips down to the seat in the lower left corner of the painting, and the black, scarlet-red, and gold pillow has a silver tassel dangling from the upper corner. The woman’s body is angled to our…
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Madonna and Child with Angels

Attributed to painter Sandro Botticelli (Florentine, 1446 - 1510)

1465/1470

Medium
oil and tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 86.7 x 57.8 cm (34 1/8 x 22 3/4 in.) ; overall (with edge strips): 89.2 x 60 cm (35 1/8 x 23 5/8 in.) ; framed: 137.2 x 101.6 cm (54 x 40 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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