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Jul 19, 2024 · 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.
1 day ago · Small paintings of the Madonna and Child were a popular type of decoration in the domestic interiors of Renaissance Florence. In this example, the figures are seated outdoors with a building and a cluster of trees behind them. The Madonna appears to embrace the Christ Child on her lap as he wriggles on her lap and turns around to meet her gaze. This intimate exchange, emphasizing the close ...
Jun 29, 2024 · The complex and formidable interlocking of the arms between mother and son, the slight inclination of Mary's face gently touching Jesus' temple while at the same time staring and attracting the viewer, generate a perfect play of correspondences accompanied by the colour combinations: from the white interwoven with golden wefts of the turban, to ...
4 days ago · Description: The figures of the Virgin and the sleeping Child stand out vividly from the background, which is dark on the right and open on the left to show a strongly humanised landscape – with the reassuring presence of a fortress and a group of farm houses in the distance.
Jun 29, 2024 · The Madonna with Child, painted by Carlo Dolci in 1570–75 ca. ,is displayed in Room of Ulysses at Pitti Palace. The composition, of which today we only see the Virgin with the standing child, is actually part of a larger horizontal canvas, depicting the Adoration of the Magi.
On the basis of meticulous stylistic research, we can state with some confidence that his career culminated in a frescoed heptaptych of the Madonna and Child Enthroned with Six Saints detached from the north wall of the church of San Domenico in Pistoia, reliably attributed to the Master by Donati (8) and datable to 1325–30, and in a ...
Jul 3, 2024 · In a landscape not far from a riverbed, crossed by a wooden bridge, the Virgin is portrayed at full length, her hands held in prayer towards the Child. He is lying on the ground on the hem of her mother’s robe and he is stretching out his hands towards her, in a domestic love gesture which dilutes the sanctity of the Adoration theme.
