1480
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Madonna and Child in a Rosary is a 1480 ink by German 15th Century, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This image shows a woman holding a small child, both standing in a garden full of flowers. The woman wears a long, striped robe with a golden halo behind her head. The child reaches toward her face. Around them, tiny figures peek from the flower borders, and a bird with wings outstretched floats at the top right. The background is filled with bright, flat colors—reds, yellows, and greens—applied by hand over a carved wood design. The flowers and stripes create a repeating pattern that frames the two main figures. Look up woodcut to see how artists carved images into wood blocks before printing them.
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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