A young woman sitting and holding a nude baby boy is surrounded by winged angels and four men in this vertical painting. They all have pale skin, and the people, not angels, have delicate gold rings as halos. The woman, Mary, sits on a white stone pedestal on a stone step, which spans the width of the painting. Her head tilts to our right as she looks down. Her brown hair is covered with a translucent white veil. She wears a raspberry-pink dress under a midnight-blue cloak lined with pine green. She cradles the chubby baby with both hands. He has round cheeks, a snub nose, and bow-shaped…
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Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels

Luca Signorelli (Cortonese, 1445/1450 - 1523)

mid or late 1510s

Medium
oil on panel transferred to hardboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 155.7 x 135.6 cm (61 5/16 x 53 3/8 in.) ; framed: 194.3 x 172.1 x 7.6 cm (76 1/2 x 67 3/4 x 3 in.)
Culture
Umbrian
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
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