Madonna and Child by Bellini in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2011

Madonna and Child
probably 1440s


Object Details

Artist: Jacopo Bellini (Italian, Venetian, active 1424–70)

Date: probably 1440s

Medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

Dimensions: Overall, with arched top, 34 1/2 x 25 in. (87.6 x 63.5 cm); painted surface 30 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (77.5 x 55.2 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Gift of Irma N. Straus, 1959

Accession Number: 59.187


Jacopo Bellini dominated Venetian painting in the middle years of the fifteenth century and was a key figure in the creation of Venetian Renaissance painting. This is one of his rare extant paintings, probably done in the 1440s. Sadly, the surface of the painting has lost most of its pigment. The fine, damaged, frame is original.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435645