Madonna and Child with St. Athony of Padua

Antoon van Dyck

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AUTHOR Antoon van Dyck
DATE 1630 - 2
OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIAL Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS cm 189 x 158
INVENTORY 87
ROOM XXXI
Work on display

This painting came to the Brera from the Louvre along with another four Flemish paintings in exchange for work by 15th and 16th century Lombard and Venetian painters. The Madonna is likely to have been painted during Van Dyck’s second period of residence in Verona because its style harks back to Italian, especially Venetian, Renaissance art, the Virgin’s pose and features clearly echoing the work of Titian.