Virgin and Child
Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna was an Italian painter, Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality
Max Resolution:1230×1660 PX
Title:Virgin and Child
Artists:Andrea Mantegna
Date:1465 - 1470
Style:Early Renaissance
Genre:religious painting
Location:Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
Copyright:Public domain
The Madonna with Sleeping Child is a glue-tempera on canvas painting measuring 43 cm by 32 cm. It was painted around 1465-1470 by Andrea Mantegna and is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.
Intended for private devotion, it dispenses with the two figures' usual haloes in favour of a more intimate, simple and tender approach. Mantegna draws on Donatello's motif of Mary's face touching the child, whilst they are both enveloped in a brocade mantle against a black background.