1480
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Christ Child with Bird is a 1480 ink by German 15th Century, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This image shows a small, simple print of a baby sitting in a cradle. The baby holds a bird in one hand. The background has a few wavy lines that look like trees or waves, and the whole scene is framed by a border with repeating patterns. Colors are mostly brown, with some hand-painted touches of blue, yellow, and green. The artist used a technique called woodcut, where the image is carved into wood and then inked. This method was common in the 1400s and made it easy to print many copies of the same design. Look up technique: woodcut to see how this process works.
This 15th-century German artist carved vivid religious scenes into metal and wood, then hand-painted them in bright, symbolic colors.
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