Madonna with Sleeping Child (Mantegna)
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title:
Madonna with Sleeping Child (Mantegna)
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The Madonna with Sleeping Child is a glue-tempera on canvas painting measuring 43 cm by 32 cm. It was painted around 1465-1470 by Andrea Mantegna and is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Intended for private devotion, it dispenses with the two figures' usual haloes in favour of a more intimate, simple and tender approach. Mantegna draws on Donatello's motif of Mary's face touching the child, whilst they are both enveloped in a brocade mantle against a black background. There is a dialogue abo
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1465–1470 painting by Andrea Mantegna
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_with_Sleeping_Child_(Mantegna)
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2024-04-22T18:34:00Z
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