Shown from the hips up, a woman holds a baby up so they are cheek-to-cheek in front of a gold background in this vertical painting, which has a triangular top. Both have pale skin and pink-flushed cheeks. The woman’s body is angled slightly to our right, but she looks off to our left from the corners of her brown eyes. Her thin eyebrows are low over her almond-shaped eyes, and she has a long, straight nose and a narrow, square jaw. Her blond hair is mostly covered by a dark blue cloak, which is edged in gold and lined in leaf green. Her white dress underneath is also lined with gold along…
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Madonna and Child, with the Blessing Christ [middle panel]

painter Martino di Bartolomeo (Sienese, active 1393/1434)

c. 1415/1420

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 106.05 × 50.8 cm (41 3/4 × 20 in.) ; original panel: 117.48 × 52.39 × 4.13 cm (46 1/4 × 20 5/8 × 1 5/8 in.) ; overall (with added wood strips): 120.65 × 60.96 × 4.13 cm (47 1/2 × 24 × 1 5/8 in.) ; depth (indicates warp of…
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Gift of Samuel L. Fuller
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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