Download hi-res imageTITLEMadonna and Child AUTHORJacopo Bellini DATE1448 OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIALTempera on panel DIMENSIONScm 45 x 50 INVENTORY5974 ROOMIV Work on display
Jacopo Bellini was the father of Gentile and Giovanni and a great painter in his own right, unfairly overshadowed by his son Giovanni. Here can be seen in embryo the use of spatial representation by a late Gothic painter, shown by the way in which the Christ child tries to come out at us, as if trying to bless us. It is no coincidence that Jacopo gave his son, perhaps his firstborn (Giovanni was probably illegitimate) the name of Gentile, after his master Gentile da Fabriano.
Download hi-res imageTITLEMadonna and Child AUTHORJacopo Bellini DATE1448 OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIALTempera on panel DIMENSIONScm 45 x 50 INVENTORY5974 ROOMIV Work on display
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