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Description: | Giovanni Bellini only rarely adopted the type of black background seen here. Even more remarkable is the way in which both the Virgin, who is looking tenderly at the Child, and the Child itself cast their eyes to the lower left, seeming rather to bless an invisible spectator than a supposed donor whose position could be assumed outside the painting. If in the past there were doubts regarding the authorship of this picture they can only have been due to the poor condition of the coat and garment of the Madonna, and not to the expression and the smoothness of the treatment of flesh and skin. | Subjects: | figure; religion (Virgin and Child) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bellini, Giovanni (Italian painter, born 1431-1436, died 1516) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to school of Bellini, Giovanni (Italian painter, born 1431-1436, died 1516) Previously attributed to after Bellini, Giovanni (Italian painter, born 1431-1436, died 1516) Previously attributed to Bissolo, Francesco (Italian painter, born 1470-1475, died 1554) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8782... | Go to resource |
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