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This is an entirely characteristic work by the artist. Giovanni Santi, Raphael's father, was also a poet at the Court of Urbino. The distant landscape in the background is reminiscent of Domenico Ghirlandaio, while the sleeping child may be based on a ' Vi ...

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This many panelled painting, or polyptych, was painted by Crivelli in 1476 as the high altarpiece for San Domenico in Ascoli Piceno, east central Italy. The polyptych was composed of the central panel & eight smaller panels with saints, also in the Gall ...

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The Virgin & the infant Christ are shown appearing at a window opening; a second window is behind them. The white cloth on which the Child is sitting probably extended over the original frame to complete the illusion of the picture as a window. The Virg ...

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The Virgin Mary is shown not only as the mother of Christ but as the Queen of Heaven, with two angels holding an ornate crown over her head. Christ holds a pomegranate, a symbol of the Passion. Previously catalogued as by a follower of Antonello, this pain ...

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The Christ Child rests on the lap of the Virgin; she holds a book & he has just blown a soap bubble. This action probably relates to the saying ' Man is a bubble' (' Homo Bulla'), which was in fairly common usage in the 16th century. It means that human l ...

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Morone was one of the leading painters in Verona in the early 16th century. This has been considered a very late work & has also been associated with a painting of 1503 in S. Maria in Organo, Verona. A date in the 1520s seems most probable. The painting ...

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The composition of this work is known in several variants with half-length figures, some having the signatures of Giovanni Bellini. Tacconi's picture is probably based on an altarpiece showing a full-length figure by Bellini himself. The variant ' Virgin a ...

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This picture with its brilliant blues & greens is among Cima's finest works. The active twisting pose of the child Jesus has evolved from earlier more sedate paintings of him. The background shows a view of 15th-century Conegliano, Cima's home town, know ...

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The painting seems to be a comparatively early work of the studio. The composition of the Virgin in prayer before her Child has been adapted from that of larger paintings of the Nativity, but the Child is here placed on a marble ledge as was commonplace i ...

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On the left are a Bishop Saint & Saint Nicholas of Tolentino; on the right, Saints Bartholomew & Monica (the mother of Saint Augustine). The triptych is said to come from the Augustinian church of S. Spirito, Florence; & contains Augustinian saints. ...

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The Virgin And Child

The fruit held by the Virgin is not identified with certainty, but could well be a pomegranate, symbol of the Passion. Fruit such as apples and pears appear in many Bellini paintings of the Virgin and Child. The green cloth of honour, the landscape and the parapet are also common features of Bellini's Madonnas. The pattern was also adopted by Cima.

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SKU: NG280

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