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The Alba Madonna is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, depicting Mary, Jesus and John the Baptist, in a typical Italian countryside. John the Baptist is holding up a cross to Jesus, which the baby Jesus is grasping. All three figures are staring at the cross. The three figures are grouped to the left in the round design, but the outstretched arm of the Madonna and the billowing material of her cloak balance the image. This Madonna was commissioned by Paolo Giovio who planned to send it to the church of the Olivetani in Nocera dei Pagani. In the 18th century, the painting belonged to the Spanish House of Alba, whose name it bears. In 1836 it was acquired by Nicholas I of Russia, who made it one of the highlights of the Imperial Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. A century later the Soviet Government clandestinely sold it to Andrew W. Mellon, who donated his collection to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where it may be seen today. During its time in the Hermitage, the painting would be transferred from a circular panel to a square canvas during the early nineteenth century.- Artist: Raphael
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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The Aldobrandini Madonna is a painting from about 1509-1510 oil by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. The picture is of the Virgin Mother, Christ child and infant John the Baptist, one of many paintings by Raphael with this trio. It is from early in his third, or Roman period, where distinctive changes are seen from his Umbrian or Florentine period in style, use of colour, and introduction of more natural subjects and settings. Owned for centuries by the aristocratic Roman Aldobrandini family, it has been part of the collection of the National Gallery in London since 1865. It was sold to the National Gallery in 1865 after about five decades of ownership by the Lord and Lady Garvagh, and is still sometimes known as the Garvagh Madonna.- Artist: Raphael
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Art Form: Painting
- Period / Movement: Italian Renaissance
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The Conestabile Madonna is a small painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was likely the last work painted by Raphael in Umbria before moving to Florence. Its name comes from the Conestabile family of Perugia, from whom it was acquired by Alexander II of Russia in 1871. The Tsar presented it to his consort, Maria Alexandrovna. Since then, the painting has been on exhibit in the Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg. The painting portrays the Madonna holding the Child while reading a book. In 1881, when the picture was moved to canvas, it was discovered that in the original version the Madonna contemplated a pomegranate instead of the book.- Artist: Raphael
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The Ansidei Madonna is a 1505-1507 painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, painted during his Florentine period. It shows the Blessed Virgin Mary sitting on a wooden throne, with the child Christ on her lap. On her right John the Baptist stands, on her left Saint Nicholas is reading. At the time the painting was commissioned, there were other paintings that made up the grouping for the altarpiece. Of the predellas, the only that remains is Saint John the Baptist Preaching, the others are inexplicably lost. Both the main painting, "Ansidei Madonna", and the predella "Saint John the Baptist Preaching", are located at the National Gallery in London.- Artist: Raphael
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Genres (Art): History painting
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Bust of Jesus as a Youth
- Artist: Franois Duquesnoy
- Subject: Child Jesus, Jesus Christ
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Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle
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The Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle is an ivory sculpture probably created in the 1260s, currently in the possession of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The museum itself describes it as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse [in the round] ivory carving ever made", and the finest individual work of art in the wave of ivory sculpture coming out of Paris in the 13th and 14th centuries.- Subject: Child Jesus, Blessed Virgin Mary
- Genres (Art): Decorative arts
- Art Form: Sculpture
- Period / Movement: Gothic art
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The Madonna and Child with St. Anne (Dei Palafrenieri) is one of the mature religious works of the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, painted in 1605-1606, for the altar of Archconfraternity of the Papal Grooms in the Basilica of Saint Peter. The painting was briefly exhibited in the parish church for the Vatican, the church of Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri on the Via di Porta Angelica in Borgo, near the Vatican. It was subsequently sold to Cardinal Scipione Borghese, and now hangs in his palazzo, where it shares space along with five other Caravaggios: Boy with a Basket of Fruit, David with the head of Goliath, Young Sick Bacchus, Saint Jerome Writing, and St John the Baptist in the Desert. While not his most successful arrangement, it is an atypical representation of the Virgin for its time, and must have been shocking to some contemporary viewers. The allegory, at its core, is simple. The Virgin with the aid of her son, whom she holds, tramples on a serpent, the emblem of evil or original sin. Saint Anne, whom the painting is intended to honor, is a wrinkled old grandmother, witnessing the event. Flimsy halos crown the upright; the snake recoils in anti-halos.- Artist: Caravaggio
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Genres (Art): History painting
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This work of art was painted by one of the most influential artists of the late 13th and early 14th century, Duccio di Buoninsegna. This iconic image of Madonna and Child, seen throughout the history of western art, holds significant value in terms of stylistic innovations of religious subject matter that would continue to evolve for centuries.- Artist: Duccio
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Genres (Art): History painting
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Pesaro Madonna
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The Pesaro Madonna is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian, commissioned by Jacopo Pesaro, whose family acquired in 1518 the chapel in the Frari Basilica in Venice for which the work was painted, and where it remains today. Jacopo was Bishop of Paphos, in Cyprus, and had been named commander of the papal fleet by the Borgia pope, Alexander VI. This painting recalls one of Titian's earliest paintings Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter, c. 1503-6- Artist: Titian
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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The Madonna with the Blue Diadem is a painting by Raphael and his pupil Gianfrancesco Penni, and was most likely painted in Rome around 1512, now at the Louvre. In the Louvre, the painting is named Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John, also known as Virgin with the Veil or Virgin with the Blue Diadem. Additional names include Virgin with the Linen, Slumbering Child and Silence of the Holy Virgin.- Artist: Gianfrancesco Penni, Raphael
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The Madonna and Child Between St. Francis and St. Nicasius, also known as Castelfranco Madonna, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Giorgione executed around 1503. It is housed in the Cathedral of Castelfranco Veneto, Giorgione's native city, in Veneto, northern Italy.- Artist: Giorgione
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Lucca Madonna
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The Lucca Madonna is an 1436 oil painting of the Madonna and Child by the Early Netherlandish master Jan van Eyck. It is on display in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. It is known as Lucca Madonna as it belonged to the collection of Charles II, Duke of Parma and Lucca, in the early 19th century. It is one of the latest works by Jan van Eyck. The Virgin has been identified as a portrait of the painters's wife, Margaretha, of whom van Eyck also made a secular portrait. It portrays the Virgin sitting on a throne with four small lion statues, a reference to the throne of Solomon, which had twelve lions on the sides and steps. In Iconography this depiction of Madonna and Child, with Jesus sitting on Mary's knee, is called the Throne of Wisdom, and is a common iconological type. As the Speculum Humanae Salvationis put it: "the throne of the true Solomon is the most Blessed Virgin Mary, In which sat Jesus Christ, the true wisdom."- Artist: Jan van Eyck
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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The Madonna of the Carnation, a.k.a. Madonna with vase or Madonna with child, is an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci created around 1478-1480. It is permanently displayed at the Alte Pinakothek gallery in Munich, Germany since 1889 after it was in private ownership. The central motif is young Virgin Mary with her naked Baby Jesus on her lap. Mary is seated and wears precious clothes and jewellery. With her left hand, she is holding a carnation. The faces are put into light while all other objects are darker, e.g. the carnation is covered by a shadow. The child is looking up, the mother is looking down — there is no eye contact. The setting of the portrait is a room with two windows on each side of the figures. Originally this painting was thought to have been created by Andrea del Verrocchio but subsequent art historians agree that it is Leonardo's work. Madonna and Child was a common motif in Christian art during the Middle Ages. This painting is the only work by Leonardo which is permanently on display in Germany.- Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels
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Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, completed between 1485 and 1490. It is housed in the Baltimore Museum of Art, in Baltimore, Maryland. This work illustrates the Madonna with a young Jesus accompanied by five angels.- Artist: Sandro Botticelli
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The Madonna and Child with Two Angels is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, dating to c. 1468-1469. It is housed in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, in Naples. This works was once attributed to Filippino Lippi, master of Botticelli. The typology of the faces and other details induce to date the work to the same period of the Fortitude and the other juvenile Madonnas of the Italian painter. The composition is similar to Verrocchio's Madonna of the Milk, dating from the late 1460s.- Artist: Sandro Botticelli
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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Madonna and Child Enthroned
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The Madonna and Child Enthroned is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Fra Filippo Lippi. It is housed in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica of Palazzo Barberini, Rome. The work, dated "A.D. M. MCCCCXXXVII" on the cartouche, was commissioned by Giovanni Vitelleschi, Papal military commander and archbishop of Florence. The painting was probably destined to his palace in his native city of Corneto. The centre of the composition is the face of the Madonna, who sits of a precious throne holding the Child. The attention to the volumes, inspired by Masaccio, is intermingled with the care for landscape and the light effects, which Lippi studied in the Flemish masters: the latter can be seen, for example, in details such as the pantoscopic view in the window on the left and the presence of precious objects.- Artist: Filippo Lippi
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Genres (Art): History painting
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The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, also known as the Colonna Altarpiece, is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, circa 1504. It is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City. It is the only altarpiece by Raphael in the United States. The collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art also contains a painting of the Agony in the Garden from the predella of the altarpiece. Other panels from the predella can be found in the collections of the National Gallery, London, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, and Dulwich Picture Gallery, in London. A preparatory drawing by Raphael for the composition of the agony in the garden is in the collection of the Morgan Library New York. The pieces of the predella were separated from the altarpiece and sold to Queen Christina of Sweden, from where they reached Orleans Collection, while the main panels themselves were eventually sold to the aristocratic Colonna family in Rome, from whom the altarpiece takes its name. The Altarpiece was the last Raphael altar in private hands when J.P. Morgan purchased it in the early 20th century for a record price.- Artist: Raphael
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The Madonna and Child with an Angel is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, c. 1465-1467. It is housed in Spedale degli Innocenti of Florence. The painting, one of Botticelli's earliest, reveals Botticelli's close artistic relationship with his teacher, Filippo Lippi, and is modelled on the latter's The Virgin and Child with Two Angels.- Artist: Sandro Botticelli
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The Madonna della seggiola or Madonna della sedia is a Madonna painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael, dating to c. 1513-1514 and housed in the Palazzo Pitti collection in Florence. It depicts Mary embracing the child Christ, while the young John the Baptist devoutly watches. Painted during his Roman period, this Madonna does not have the strict geometrical form and linear style of his earlier Florentine treatments of the same subject. Instead, the warmer colors seem to suggest the influence of Titian and Raphael's rival Sebastiano del Piombo. Maria Montessori, Italian doctor and pioneer in pedagogy, wrote that it was her wish that the Madonna della seggiola hang in each Children's House as a symbol of "humanity [St. John] rendering homage to maternity [Madonna]". Ingres greatly admired Raphael and paid tribute to him by including this painting in many of his works, such in the background of as Henri IV playing with his children and Raphael and La Fornarina, on the table in front of the subject in his Portrait of monsieur Rivière, and worked into the carpet in Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne.- Artist: Raphael
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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The Madonna della tenda is a 1514 painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It shows Mary embracing the child Christ, while the young John the Baptist watches. The design of the painting resembles that of the Madonna della seggiola from the same period.- Artist: Raphael
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Art Form: Painting
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The Madonna dell'Impannata is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael.- Artist: Raphael
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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The Madonna del Granduca is a Madonna painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was probably painted in 1505, shortly after Raphael had arrived in Florence. The influence of Leonardo da Vinci, whose works he got to know there, can be seen in the use of sfumato. The painting belonged to Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, from whom it got its name.- Artist: Raphael
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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The Madonna and Child with Three Angels is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, executed in 1493. It is housed in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana of Milan. The Virgin Mary is portrayed while giving her breast to the Child, the latter being supported by an angel. The Italian name derives from the rich baldachin over the scene.- Artist: Sandro Botticelli
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The Madonna del Parto is the name of an iconic depiction of the Virgin Mary shown as pregnant, which was developed in Italy, mainly in Tuscany in the 14th century. Examples include works by Taddeo Gaddi, Bernardo Daddi and Nardo di Cione. The Madonna was portrayed standing, alone, often with a closed book on her belly, an allusion to the Incarnate Word. The works were associated with the devotions of pregnant women, praying for a safe delivery. Sometimes, as with a statue by Sansovino in the Basilica of Sant'Agostino in Rome, the depiction is of a Virgin and Child, but known as a Madonna del Parto because it was especially associated with devotions over pregnancy. Here the Virgin wears the Girdle of Thomas, a belt of knotted cloth cord that was a relic held in Prato Cathedral, which many depictions wear.- Artist: Piero della Francesca
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Genres (Art): History painting
- Art Form: Fresco
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Madonna di Loreto
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The Madonna of Loreto or Pilgrim's Madonna is a famous painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, located in the Cavalletti Chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino, near the Piazza Navona in Rome. It depicts the apparition of the barefoot virgin and naked child to two peasants on a pilgrimage; or as some say it is the quickening of the iconic statue of the Virgin. In 1603 the heirs of marquis Ermete Cavalletti, who had died on 21 July 1602, commissioned for the decoration of a family chapel a painting on the theme of the Madonna of Loreto. Putting into practice the marquis's will, the Cavaletti's on 4 September 1603 purchased a chapel in the church of Sant'Agostino in Rome. Giovanni Baglione, a competing painter of lesser talent, but who had successfully obtained Caravaggio's jailing during a libel trial, said that the unveiling of this painting "caused the common people to make a great cackle over it". The uproar was not surprising. The Virgin Mary, like her admiring pilgrims, is barefoot. The doorway or niche is not an exalted cumulus or bevy of putti, but a partly decrepit wall of flaking brick is visible. Only the merest halo sanctifies her and the baby.- Artist: Caravaggio
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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Madonna di Senigallia
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The Madonna di Senigallia is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, finished around 1474. It is housed in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, in the Ducal Palace of Urbino. From its small scale the painting was intended for private devotion. It was noticed for the first time in 1822 in the church of the Observant Franciscan convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli outside Senigallia, whence the current name. Senigallia was wrested from Sigismondo Malatesta by Federico Montefeltro: both men were patrons of Piero. The commission was likely from or on behalf of Giovanni Della Rovere, betrothed in 1474 to Giovanna Montefeltro, at which time Federico invested Giovanni with Senigallia. Following its rediscovery the painting was taken to the Ducal Palace, Urbino. The 1990s restoration showed the high quality of Piero della Francesca's treatment of light, as well as the influence of Flemish masters on it, both in its oil on panel medium and in details such as the basket with linen gauze, the coral, and the fabric covering the Madonna's head. The light, which realistically enters from the window on the left, is a symbol of the Virgin's conception.- Artist: Piero della Francesca
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Madonna in Glory with Seraphim is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, executed c. 1469-1470. It is housed in Galleria degli Uffizi of Florence. Some panel paintings of the Madonna by Botticelli remain from the years around 1470 which are striking expressions of Botticelli's stylistic development. Two full figure pictures of the Madonna - the Madonna in Glory and the Madonna of the Rosegarden - are in the Uffizi. They represent monumental seated figures filling the entire picture. Mary is enthroned on clouds in a glory of seraphim. The Christ Child, with the cruciform nimbus, is looking towards the observer and raising his hand in blessing. Botticelli has succeeded in expressing the tensions in this theme with sensitivity: the mother, who is fully aware of the Passion her son will suffer, is holding him protectively in her arms.- Artist: Sandro Botticelli
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Genres (Art): History painting
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The Madonna Litta is a late 15th-century painting, traditionally attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. It depicts the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the Christ child, a devotional subject known as the Madonna lactans. The figures are set in a dark interior with two arched openings, as in Leonardo's earlier Madonna of the Carnation, and a mountainous landscape in aerial perspective can be seen beyond. In his left hand Christ holds a goldfinch, which is symbolic of his future Passion. Scholarly opinion is divided on the work's attribution, with some believing it to be the work of a pupil of Leonardo such as Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio or Marco d'Oggiono; the Hermitage Museum, however, considers the painting to be an autograph work by Leonardo. The painting takes its name from the House of Litta, a Milanese noble family in whose collection it was for much of the nineteenth century.- Artist: Leonardo da Vinci, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
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The Madonna of Foligno is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. First painted on wood panel, it was later transferred to canvas.- Artist: Raphael
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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The Madonna of Loreto is a painting finished around 1508-1509 by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. It is housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly, France. For centuries the painting kept company with the Portrait of Pope Julius II, first at the Santa Maria del Popolo, then in private collections, and for a time their location was unknown. Their ownership, or provenance, has been difficult to unravel because of the number of copies of both paintings, the unclear ownership chain, misinformation and delay of publication of vital information. For instance, this painting received its name from a copy at the Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto which was at one time thought to be the original. Now is it certain that the painting at Loreto was a copy - and therefore the painting name is a misnomer. Even so, the well-copied painting has been a beloved and critically acclaimed painting for centuries.- Artist: Raphael
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The Madonna of the Book, or the Madonna del Libro, is a small painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, and is preserved in the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan. The painting is executed in tempera on panel. It dates from between 1480 and 1483.- Artist: Sandro Botticelli
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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Madonna of the Harpies
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Madonna of the Harpies is a 1517 painting by Andrea del Sarto, considered his major contribution to High Renaissance art. It is a depiction of the Virgin Mary and child on a pedestal, flanked by angels and two saints. Originally completed in 1517 for the convent of San Francesco dei Macci, the altarpiece now resides in the Uffizi. The figures have a Leonardo-like aura, with a pyramid shaped composition. The main character in the Kürk Mantolu Madonna, a novel written by Turkish writer Sabahattin Ali, is a depiction of the Virgin Mary in Madonna of the Harpies.- Artist: Andrea del Sarto
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The Madonna of the Magnificat, Italian: Madonna del Magnificat, is a painting of circular or tondo form by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. It is now in the galleries of the Uffizi, in Florence. The work portrays the Virgin Mary crowned by two angels. She is writing the opening of the Magnificat on the right-hand page of a book; on the left page is part of the Benedictus. In her left hand she holds a pomegranate.- Artist: Sandro Botticelli
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The Madonna of the Pinks is an early devotional painting usually attributed to Italian Renaissance master Raphael. It is painted in oils on fruitwood and now hangs in the National Gallery, London.- Artist: Raphael
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The Madonna of the Pomegranate is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, circa 1487. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy. Several copies of the work exist, currently held at the Berlin State Museums, the Wernher Collection in London and the Aynard Collection at Lyon.- Artist: Sandro Botticelli
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Madonna of the Rosary
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The Madonna of the Rosary is a painting finished in 1607 by the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is the only painting by Caravaggio that could be called a standard Baroque altarpiece. The commissioner of the work is uncertain. As altarpiece it would have been commissioned for a Dominican church, given the presence of Saint Dominic and Saint Peter Martyr of Verona. The donor is included in the painting; at the left, dressed in black with a ruff, seeking protection under the cloak of Saint Dominic and peering out at the viewer. According to some, the donor was Nicholas Radulovic, a rich merchant of Ragusa- Artist: Caravaggio
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The Madonna of the Stairs is a relief sculpture by Michelangelo in the Casa Buonarroti, Florence. It was sculpted around 1491, when Michelangelo was about seventeen. This and the Battle of the Centaurs were Michelangelo's first two sculptures. The first reference to the Madonna of the Stairs as a work by Michelangelo was in the 1568 edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.- Artist: Michelangelo
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Art Form: Sculpture, Relief
- Period / Movement: Italian Renaissance, Renaissance
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The Madonna of the Yarnwinder is a subject depicted by Leonardo da Vinci in at least one, and perhaps two paintings begun in 1499 or later. Leonardo was recorded as being at work on one such picture in Florence in 1501 for Florimond Robertet, a secretary to King Louis XII of France. This may have been delivered to the French court in 1507, though scholars are divided on this point. The subject is known today from several versions of which two, called the Buccleuch Madonna and the Lansdowne Madonna, are thought to be partly by Leonardo’s hand. The underdrawings of both paintings show similar experimental changes made to the composition, suggesting that both evolved concurrently in Leonardo’s workshop. The composition shows the Virgin Mary seated in a landscape with the Christ child, who gazes at a yarnwinder used to collect spun yarn. The yarnwinder serves both as a symbol of Mary's domesticity and as a foreshadowing of the Cross on which Christ was crucified. The painting's dynamic composition and implied narrative was highly influential on later High Renaissance depictions of the Madonna and Child by artists such as Raphael and Andrea del Sarto.- Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
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Salting Madonna
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The Madonna with Child is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina, depicting the Madona holding the Child and wearing an ornate golden crown, held by angels over her head. It is housed in the National Gallery, London. The name Salting derives from George Salting, the collector who donated it to the gallery in 1910.- Artist: Antonello da Messina
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Madonna with Child and Saints
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The Madonna with St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Martin of Tours is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Filippino Lippi. It is housed in the church of Santo Spirito of Florence. The painting is also known as Pala de' Nerli from the name of the commissioners, Tanai de' Nerli and his wife Nanna, which are portrayed at the sides as donors. the choice of the saints is also connected to the personality of Nerli, who was particularly devoted to St. Catherine and was a member of the Company of San Martino de' Buonomini. The background is an influence from the Flemish school but also from the ancient architecture. Several scholars have dated it to 1494 due to an alleged reference to the presence of Charles VIII of France in the city. However, the numerous decorations hinting to the classical antiquities would place it soon after his return from Rome. Behind the loggia is an unusual veduta of Florence with the Gate of San Frediano and de' Narli's palace. The commissioner is portrayed at the latter's door while hugging his daughter in front of his wife, while a groom cares his horse- Artist: Filippino Lippi
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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Ince Hall Madonna
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The Virgin and Child Reading is an oil painting attributed to a follower of the Early Netherlandish master Jan van Eyck, from 1433. It is on display in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. The inscription on the wall at top left says: "COPLETV ANO D M CCCC XXXIIJ P IOHEM DE EYC BRVGIS". There is a motto on the right: "ALC IXH XAN".- Artist: Jan van Eyck
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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The Madonna with the Saints John the Baptist and Donatus is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea del Verrocchio, circa 1475-1483. It is housed in the Cathedral of Pistoia, Italy. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary, and Saints John the Baptist and Donatus of Fiesole.- Artist: Andrea del Verrocchio
- Subject: Madonna, John the Baptist, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary
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Madonna with the Long Neck
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The Madonna of the Long Neck, also known as Madonna and Child with Angels and St. Jerome, is an Italian Mannerist oil painting by the painter Parmigianino, dating from c. 1535-1540 and depicting Madonna and Child with angels. The painting was begun in 1534 for the church of the Servites in Parma, but remained incomplete on Parmigianino's death in 1540. Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany purchased it in 1698 and it has been on display at the Uffizi since 1948.- Artist: Parmigianino
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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The Madonna Colonna is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted in 1508, near the end of Raphael's Florentine period.- Artist: Raphael
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Art Form: Painting
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- Virgin and Child (1515-1525) is a painting by the workshop of Adriaen Isenbrant.
- Artist: Adriaen Isenbrant
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Genres (Art): Christian art, History painting
- Art Form: Painting
Good art? - Virgin and Child is a painting by artist Jan Mabuse.
- Artist: Jan Mabuse
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Genres (Art): Christian art, History painting
- Art Form: Painting
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Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child (1500-1525) is a painting by the workshop of Desiderio da Settignano.- Artist: Desiderio da Settignano
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
Good art? - Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels (1490-1495) is a painting by Colijn de Coter.
- Artist: Colijn de Coter
- Subject: Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Angel, Madonna and Child
- Genres (Art): Christian art, History painting
- Art Form: Painting
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Madonna and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth
- Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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Madonna and Child
- Artist: Alessandro Algardi (After)
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Madonna and Child
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Madonna and Child Appearing to Saint Louis Gonzaga
- Artist: Veronica Stern, attributed to
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Christ Child
Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Christ Child is a painting by artist Girolamo da Carpi.- Artist: Girolamo da Carpi
- Subject: Luke the Evangelist, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, John the Baptist, Dominic and a Donor (1325-1335) is a painting attributed to Ugolino di Nerio.- Artist: Ugolino di Nerio (Attributed to)
- Subject: Saint Dominic, John the Baptist, Saint Peter, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ
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- Subject: Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Genres (Art): Christian art, History painting
- Art Form: Painting
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Presentation of the Child Jesus to Mary and Joseph
- Artist: Johann Georg Schwanthaler
- Subject: Child Jesus, Jesus Christ
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Virgin and Child (1663) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Italian painter Elisabetta Sirani.- Artist: Elisabetta Sirani
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Art Form: Painting
- Period / Movement: Renaissance
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Virgin and Child of Jeanne d'Evreux
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Virgin and Child of Jeanne d'Evreux is a statuette created by a silversmith between 1324 and 1339..- Subject: Child Jesus, Blessed Virgin Mary
- Genres (Art): Decorative arts
- Art Form: Metalworking
- Period / Movement: Gothic art
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The Madonna and Child is a painting finished around c. 1503 by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. It is housed in the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California.- Artist: Raphael
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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Trivulzio Madonna
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The Trivulzio Madonna is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, executed in 1497. It is housed in the Sforza Castle Pinacoteca of the Castello Sforzesco, Milan. The work portrays the Madonna enthroned surrounded by several saints. The theme of the cherubim surrounding the Madonna is a reference to Annunciation. On the side the saints are surmounted by two citrus trees, the two figures in the foreground are portrayed in order to be observed from a lower position. In the lower centre are three busts of chanting angels around an organ, an allusion the Olivetan church of Santa Maria in Organo at Verona, for which the panel was executed. The current name comes from the Trivulzio Collection of Milan, to which it belonged from 1791 to 1935.- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
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The Madonna and Child with Angels is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio, who worked in collaboration with his brother Giovanni and with Andrea di Giusto. The painting is the central panel of the Pisa Altarpiece, a large multi-paneled altarpiece executed for the chapel of St. Julian, owned by the notary Giuliano di Colino in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Pisa. The painting is in a very damaged state, the altarpiece having been cut up and sold in pieces long ago. Today the panel is smaller than its original state; it has lost perhaps as much as 8 cm. at the bottom and 2-2.5 cm. at each side. Eleven surviving panels of the altarpiece, which is the only documented work by Masaccio, are in various museums. Scholars hypothesize the reconstruction of the altarpiece based on a very complete description by Vasari. The painting contains six figures: the Madonna and Child and four angels. The Madonna is the centre figure and is larger than any of the others to signify her importance. Christ sits on her knees, eating grapes offered to him by his mother.- Artist: Masaccio
- Subject: Madonna, Child Jesus, Jesus Christ, Blessed Virgin Mary, Madonna and Child
- Art Form: Painting
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