Shown from the hips up, a woman sits facing our left as she cradles a child in her lap in this vertical painting. A ginger-brown parapet spanning the lower edge of the composition separates them from us, and they have pale skin. A lavender cloth is wrapped across the woman’s forehead under an ivory-white veil that covers her hair. A cobalt-blue mantle drapes over her head and wraps around her brick-red robe. The mantle is edged in gold, and an ivory cloth is tucked into the neckline of the robe. Her eyes and head are lowered slightly to look at the child, and she supports his bottom with her…
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Madonna and Child in a Landscape

Italian 15th Century

Workshop of related artist Giovanni Bellini (Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516)

c. 1490/1500

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 74.2 x 58.3 cm (29 3/16 x 22 15/16 in.) ; framed: 110.8 x 88.6 cm (43 5/8 x 34 7/8 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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