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Description: | By the fifteenth cetnury when this work was produced it was a very old-fashioned image. If, as some think, it dates from as late as 1500, it would be contemporary with Holy Family compositions by Leonardo and Raphael, for instance. The composition, gold ground and classically derived clothing of the Virgin and Child harken back to long-standing Byzantine iconographic traditions. However, the faces, hands and feet are finely drawn and there are highlights to model the faces, features which may be original though the painting has had significant conservation undertaken before it entered the Garman Ryan Collection. It has been suggested that it is a mid-fifteenth century Veneto-Byzantine work, and that the archaic composition could have been intentionally adopted in order to suggest an affinity with revered Byzantine icons. | Subjects: | religion (Virgin and Child) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian (Venetian) School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Italian (Central Italian) School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8553... | Go to resource |
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