Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Madonna and Child
Image View:
Overall view with frame
Creator:
Giovanni Bellini (Italian painter, ca.1431-1516)
Location:
repository: Galleria Borghese (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. 176
Location Note:
Piazzale del Museo Borghese 5
GPS:
41.914 12.492
Date:
ca. 1510 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
painting
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
50 cm (height) x 41 cm (width)
Description:
Small-scale panels for private devotion, frequently of the Madonna and Child, were a genre that remained characteristic throughout Bellini's career. Signed on the cartellino on the parapet. There is a resemblance to the Virgin and Child in the San Zaccaria Altarpiece of 1505. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were attributions to followers of Bellini (Bissolo, Catena and Pseudo-Basaiti), and some more recent critics have considered it a late studio work. Tempestini (1999) considers it Bellini’s latest surviving half-length Madonna (about 1510). The picture is unrecorded before 1833, when it is listed in a Borghese inventory. (Source: Cavallini to Veronese [website]; http://cavallinitove ronese.co.uk/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-BELLI-BG-MWB-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Madonna and Child