Madonna and Child (Bellini, Milan, 1510)

The 'Madonna and Child or Madonna with the Christ Child Blessing is a 1510 oil on panel painting by Giovanni Bellini, painted when he was already in his eighties but still responding to new developments in painting. It is similar to the 1505 Madonna del Prato (National Gallery, London) and the 1509 Madonna and Child (Detroit Institute of Arts). It is now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.[1]

Madonna and Child
ArtistGiovanni Bellini
Year1510
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions85 cm × 118 cm (33 in × 46 in)
LocationPinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Restoration in 1986–1987 showed that there was no preparatory drawing under the landscape in the background and that he had often applied the paint to the preparation with his fingertips. The landscape in the background draws on Giorgione's innovations in landscape, the use of aerial perspective in the blue haze over the mountains and the more late Gothic study of detail from life which Bellini had learned under his father Jacopo – one example is the cheetah to the left, standing on a stone which bears his Latin signature and the date in Latin numerals (IOANNES BELLINUS MDX).[2]

References

  1. (in Italian) AA.VV., Brera, guida alla pinacoteca, Electa, Milano 2004. ISBN 978-88-370-2835-0
  2. (in Italian) Mariolina Olivari, Giovanni Bellini, in AA.VV., Pittori del Rinascimento, Scala, Firenze 2007. ISBN 88-8117-099-X


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