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This lyrical work inaugurates the tradition in Italian art of envisioning the Madonna and Child in terms appropriated from real life. The Christ Child gently pushes away the veil of his mother, whose sorrowful expression reflects her foreknowledge of his crucifixion.
Following their fresco debut, the Madonna and Child materialized as encaustic (wax-based) and tempera (egg yolk-based) paintings. Rendered on wooden panels, these Roman Catholic icons often feature the somber-faced Mary and Jesus seated on a throne and flanked by equally serious saints and angels.
Madonna and Child was painted by one of the most influential artists of the late 13th and early 14th century, Duccio di Buoninsegna. This iconic image of the Madonna and Child, seen throughout the history of western art, holds significant value in terms of stylistic innovations of religious subject matter that would continue to evolve for ...
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 601. Featuring solemn, highly stylized beauty, this is one of only two works that can be confidently attributed to Berlinghiero, the leading painter in the Tuscan city of Lucca.
Painting of the Madonna and Child by an anonymous Italian, first half of 19th century. The earliest representation of the Madonna and Child may be the wall painting in the Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome, in which the seated Madonna suckles the Child, who turns his head to gaze at the spectator. [15]
Of all the subjects in art history, I would place money on Madonna and Child being the most represented subject in art. Today, I am sharing my 25 favorites.
In a small devotional painting of the Madonna and Child , the landscape, which incorporates features from a well-known painting in the National Gallery, London (the Madonna of the Meadow), is superior to the figures and the picture may well have been the product of a collaboration between two workshop assistants, one of whom was particularly ...
This painting from the late 13th century by Italian painter Duccio di Buoninsega, in contrast, expresses the emotions of love and tenderness between mother and child. The infant Jesus returns the Madonna's placid but intense gaze.
This painting and the Enthroned Madonna and Child are the oldest paintings on the National Gallery of Art’s walls. They may have been created by the same anonymous artist in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), then the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Duccio’s Madonna and Child grounds divine figures with human details without sacrificing their sacred nature, a technique that would become one of the distinctive characteristics of Italian Renaissance art.