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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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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 & pears appear in many Bellini paintings of the Virgin & Child. The green cloth of honour, the landscape & the parapet are also common features of Bellini's Madonnas. The pattern was also adopted by Cima. ...

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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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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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This picture was probably painted in Florence in the late 1480s or early 1490s. Credi was much influenced by Leonardo da Vinci (1452
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The Virgin Mary & the Christ Child are seen through a painted stone frame or window. The Virgin tenderly embraces Christ. The Child adopts a more formal pose, standing upright & raising his right hand to bless the viewer. Attached to this in the lower ...

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This painting displays the influence of Leonardo da Vinci, in whose Milanese studio Boltraffio was working by 1491. Among the decorative motifs picked out in gold on the cloth of honour are the inscriptions 'AVE' & 'MA[RIA]' (Hail Mary). Both the Virgin ...

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The Virgin And Child

This picture with its brilliant blues and 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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Supplier: National Gallery
SKU: NG300

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