Monday, December 28, 2015

Righteous Madonnas

Madonna & Child
carved ivory
Sri Lanka
ca. 1690
Victoria & Albert Museum

The stiff upright virgin predominated in mainstream European art all through the 1400s, but she gradually disappeared during the 1500s. By the 17th century, virgins had learned suppleness and sinuosity. The ivory Madonna from Sri Lanka (above) though dating from the 17th century, reflects the older hieratic tradition, as adapted by the unknown Asian artist.

Paolo de San Leocadio
Madonna & Child with Saints & Knight of Montesa
ca. 1472-76
Prado

Master of the Virgin of the Catholic Kings Ferdinand & Isabella
Madonna & Child
ca. 1491
Prado

Carlo Crivelli
Madonna & Child Enthroned
1472
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Carlo Crivelli
Madonna & Child
ca. 1480
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Giovanni Bellini
Madonna & Child
ca. 1470
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Giovanni Bellini
Madonna Adoring Sleeping Child
1460s
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Donato de' Bardi
Madonna & Child with St. Agnes & St. Philip
ca. 1425-30
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Filippino Lippi
Madonna & Child
ca. 1483-84
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pesellino
Madonna & Child with six Saints
1440s
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Michele da Verona
Madonna & Child with St. John the Baptist
1490s
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Antonio Rossellino
Madonna & Child with Angels
ca. 1455-60
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ambrosius Benson
Madonna & Child with St. Anne
ca. 1528
Prado

Francesco Francia
Madonna & Child
1490s
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cosimo Rosselli
Madonna & Child with Angels
ca. 1480-82
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Andrea Mantegna
Holy Family with St. Mary Magdalene
ca. 1495-1500
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Georges Trubert
Madonna of the Burning Bush
1480s
Getty