Tag: CHILD
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Elizabeth – with footnotes #203
The Mother of God and the Christ Child are in the company of John the Baptist and his mother, Elizabeth. This devotional painting radiates quietude of a virtually sublime character. The pictorial type known as ‘sacra conversazione’ (sacred conversation) was extremely popular. Successful artists like Bellini produced several versions of it, combining figures based on…
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01 Limestone Sculpture, RELIGIOUS ART, French, Normandy, Virgin and Child – with footnotes #187
Sold for 113,400 USD in January 2022This seated Virgin holds a lily-scepter in her proper left hand and supports the Christ Child with her right. She wears a belted gown under an open mantle, the edges of which are decorated with cavities that would have held jewels made from colored glass. The Christ Child stands on…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, The Master of the Magdalene Legend’s Virgin and Child, with Footnotes #183
Estimate for 30,000 – 50,000 EUR in June 2022In the present painting, characteristics typical of the Master of the Magdalene Legend include the graceful modelling of the flesh; the light falling delicately on the faces; the Virgin’s eyes, piously lowered; the finely delineated hair with lighter reflections; and the shadows on the eyelids and neck. More…
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1 Religious Icon, Bernard van Orley’s THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, with footnotes #26
This is one of a number of versions of the composition, the finest of which is a picture formerly in the collection of Friedrich Glück, Budapest, considered by Baldass to be by Van Orley before 1520.1 A workshop version is in the Royal Collection (L. Campbell, The Early Flemish Pictures in the Collection of Her…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Parmigianino’s Virgin with Child, St John the Baptist, Magdalene and Zachariah – with footnotes #190
Madonna with St Zachariah dates to the early 1530s, when the artist, who had fled after the Sack of Rome 1527, was staying in Bologna for a few years, focusing on an intense production of altarpieces and paintings for private devotion like this one. The stern gaze of the priest, father of John the Baptist,…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Ventura di Moro’s MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SAINT ANTHONY, with Footnotes – 180
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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06 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible by Sandro Botticelli , With Footnotes #48
Botticelli’s women are renowned as the embodiments of grace, elegance, and beauty. The unique style of the Italian painter — with his idealized, elongated, buoyant figures in flowing tresses and drapery — has become emblematic of the Italian Renaissance, and his works are among the most recognizable in the world. Less well known is the fact that Botticelli, while…
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Massimo Stanzione, Madonna and Child 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by the Old Masters, With Footnotes – 94
Massimo Stanzione, (ca. 1586 – ca. 1656) Madonna and Child Oil on canvas 49 3/4 by 39 3/8 in.; 126.4 by 100 cm. Private collection The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by the Old Masters, With Footnotes – 93
R PAOLETTI (ITALIAN 19TH CENTURY) AFTER ANDREA DEL SARTO Madonna and Child Oil on canvas 110 x 78cm Private Collection The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks…
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