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The Madonna and Child with St. Anne (Dei Palafrenieri) or Madonna and the Serpent [1], is one of the mature religious works of the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, painted in 1605–1606, for the altar of the Archconfraternity of the Papal Grooms (Italian: Arciconfraternita di Sant'Anna de Parafrenieri) [2] in the Basilica of Saint Peter [3] and taking its theme from Genesis 3:15.
Half-length paintings of the Madonna and Child are also common in Italian Renaissance painting, particularly in Venice. The seated "Madonna and Child" is a style of image that became particularly popular during the 15th century in Florence and was imitated elsewhere. These representations are usually of a small size suitable for a small altar ...
The Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (previously also known as The Virgin of the Sandal) is a 1518 oil-on-panel painting by the Italian painter Antonio da Correggio. Stylistically it is closest to the frescoes Correggio produced for the Camera di San Paolo and the fact that it was a model for Michelangelo Anselmi suggests that ...
The Madonna of Loreto or Pilgrim's Madonna is a painting (1604–1606) by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, located in the Cavalletti Chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino, just northeast of the Piazza Navona in Rome. [1] It depicts the barefoot Virgin holding her naked child in a doorway before two kneeling peasants on a pilgrimage.
Madonna and Child, representing "the blessed Virgin holding the sleeping Baby Jesus in her lap," [1] is part of a series of Madonna paintings by Anthony van Dyck.The series was made during his Italian period between 1621 and 1625 according to this Notebook of Italian Drawings.
The work is an oil painting on panel with dimensions of 126 cm x 116 cm (49.6 in x 45.6 in). It was created in the early part of the 16th century. The painting depicts the Nursing Madonna and Child enthroned. Two angles are holding a holy cloth behind the Holy Mother. The central angel is crowning her.
The Madonna and Child with St John and Angels (c. 1497), also known as The Manchester Madonna, is an unfinished painting in the National Gallery, London, attributed to Michelangelo. [1] It is one of three surviving panel paintings attributed to the artist and has been dated to his first period in Rome .
Unlike in other paintings by Giotto, the light source in Ognissanti Madonna is located on the right side of the piece as opposed to the left. The meaning behind this is not known for sure, although a few logical reasons for this could be the Ognissanti Madonna's placement within the church or Giotto's use of exaggeration with lighting. [6]