Madonna with Trees
Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters.
Max Resolution:809×1000 PX
Title:Madonna with Trees
Artists:Giovanni Bellini
Date:1487
Style:Early Renaissance
Genre:religious painting
Medium:oil,panel
Location:Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy
Dimensions:58×71 cm
Copyright:Public domain
The Madonna of the Small Trees (Italian: Madonna degli Alberetti) is an oil on panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini, executed in 1487. It is housed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.
Stylistic elements, such as the division of the background, suggest that the work was based on Bellini's Alzano Madonna in the "Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo".
The background behind the Madonna and Child includes a hanging tapestry, a typical element of contemporary sacred conversations and which also appears in the Alzano Madonna. At the sides are two portions of landscape with two slender trees, whence the traditional name of the picture.
In the lower foreground, as usual in Bellini works, is a parapet in green marble with his signature.
Stylistic elements, such as the division of the background, suggest that the work was based on Bellini's Alzano Madonna in the "Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo".
The background behind the Madonna and Child includes a hanging tapestry, a typical element of contemporary sacred conversations and which also appears in the Alzano Madonna. At the sides are two portions of landscape with two slender trees, whence the traditional name of the picture.
In the lower foreground, as usual in Bellini works, is a parapet in green marble with his signature.