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Madonna with Writing Child

Pinturicchio

Pintoricchio or Pinturicchio whose formal name was Bernardino di Betto, also known as Benetto di Biagio or Sordicchio, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.

Max Resolution:701×962 PX

Title:Madonna with Writing Child

Artists:Pinturicchio

Date:1498

Style:High Renaissance

Genre:religious painting

Medium:oil

Location:Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, US

Dimensions:41.6×61 cm

Copyright:Public domain

The Madonna with Writing Child is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Pinturicchio, painted around 1494-1498 and housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in the United States.

The painting is derived from the Madonna of the Peace (c. 1490), a simplification for a less acculturated commissioner, perhaps a private family. The Virgin sits on a kind of cask, and is offering a book to the Child, who writes on it. The garments of the Child are perhaps inspired by the late Byzantine mosaics seen by Pinturicchio in Rome.

In the background is a small depiction of the Flight into Egypt and two symmetrical trees, one which is a palm, a symbol of martyrdom.