Shown from the waist up, a woman behind a stone ledge and in front of a landscape holds a chubby baby tucked into one elbow in this vertical painting. Both have pale skin, flushed cheeks, and blond hair surrounded by gold-edged halos. The woman looks down and to our left with hooded eyes. Her pink lips are closed over a pointed, cleft chin. A translucent white veil brushes across her high forehead and is covered by a marine-blue mantle that drapes over her head and shoulders. The mantle is edged in gold, and the plum-purple lining is visible where it is rolled back over her head and…
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Madonna and Child

Bartolomeo Vivarini (Venetian, c. 1430/1432 - c. 1491 or c. 1499)

c. 1475

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 53 x 41.5 cm (20 7/8 x 16 5/16 in.) ; overall (area once covered by engaged frame): 54.4 x 42.6 cm (21 7/16 x 16 3/4 in.) ; framed: 72.39 x 60.01 x 5.08 cm (28 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 2 in.)
Culture
Venetian
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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