1493
oil
canvas
From the collection of Kimbell Art Museum
Dominant colour
The Madonna and Child with Saints Joseph, Elizabeth, and John the Baptist is a 1493 oil by Andrea Mantegna, a Early Renaissance work, depicting Boy, held at Kimbell Art Museum.
This painting shows a tender scene of a mother and child surrounded by family members. The mother, dressed in a red robe with a yellow headscarf, gently holds the naked child in her lap. To her right stands a woman in a yellow dress and headscarf, while a bearded man in a red robe stands to her left. In the bottom right corner, a young boy looks up at the child. The figures are arranged in a harmonious composition, with the mother and child at the center. The use of warm colors and gentle expressions creates a sense of intimacy and devotion. Explore more works by Andrea Mantegna.
The Madonna and Child with Saints Joseph, Elizabeth, and John the Baptist is a glue-tempera painting on canvas, with gilded highlights and measuring 62.9 cm by 51.3 cm. It was painted around 1490 by Andrea Mantegna and is now in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Mantegna bases the frontal contrapposto pose of the Christ Child on classical models such as the young Dionysius which he would have seen in the Gonzaga collection. He is balanced on the Virgin's knee, with Joseph to her left and saint Elisabeth (identical to the Elisabeth in the Madonna della Vittoria) with her son John…
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Mantegna's use of canvas for the work as well as its stylistic similarities to the Trivulzio Madonna date it to his later period. It left Italy in the mid-19th century and by 1909 was in a private collection in Marseille. Sotheby's auctioned it in Monaco on 21 June 1986, selling it to a European private collection, from which it was acquired by its current owners on the New York market in 1987.
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Andrea Mantegna (UK: , US: ; Italian: ; c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archaeology, and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna…
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