A woman stands over a sleeping infant in front of a deep landscape in this vertical painting. She has pale skin and light brown wavy hair. Her head tilts down to our left as her dark eyes gaze down at the infant lying on a ledge in front of her at about hip height, and her fingertips come together in front of her chest in prayer. A thin golden halo encircles the air above her head, and she wears thick robes of moss-green fabric with a dark blue lining over a crimson-red tunic. The collar of the tunic is edged with gold, and light reflects off the creases in the green robe where it bunches…
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Madonna Adoring the Child

Marco Basaiti (Venetian, active 1496 - 1530)

c. 1520

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 20.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.) ; framed: 32.1 x 27.9 x 4.1 cm (12 5/8 x 11 x 1 5/8 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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