Artwork
Maria mit Kind
Maria mit Kind is an unspecified painting by the High Renaissance artist Luini Bernardino. It dates from 1510 and is held in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
About this work
Subject & Meaning
Attributed to Bernardino Luini and dated to 1510, this religious painting depicts the Madonna and Child. The work's iconography centers on the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, a standard subject in Christian art representing the incarnation of Jesus. As a piece of religious genre painting, it serves as a devotional image focused on the maternal bond between Mary and her son.
History & Provenance
No specific inventory or accession number is provided in the available records, nor is there documented exhibition history included in the sources.
The Madonna and Child known as Maria mit Kind is dated to 1510 and attributed to the Lombard painter Bernardino Luini. The work entered the holdings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where it is now catalogued as part of the museum’s painting collection. While no documentary record of a specific commission survives, its religious subject and stylistic affinities place it within Luini’s output of devotional panels produced during the second decade of the sixteenth century.
The painting Maria mit Kind, attributed to Bernardino Luini and dated to 1510, is held in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The work depicts the religious subject of the Madonna and Child. No specific inventory or accession number is provided in the available records, nor is there documented exhibition history included in the sources.
Overview
Created in 1510, Maria mit Kind is an oil painting by Bernardino Luiz, an Italian artist linked to Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop during the High Renaissance. The work portrays the Virgin Mary cradling the infant Christ, rendered in a gentle, intimate pose. It is part of the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Technique & Style
Luiz employs chiaroscuro to model the figures, contrasting illuminated flesh with a darker background that heightens three‑dimensionality. The painter’s handling of light creates a soft glow around the faces, while the elongated eyes and graceful contours recall Leonardo’s influence, filtered through a regional Lombard sensibility that favors elegant, elongated forms.
Artist & collection
Artist
Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/82 – June 1532) was a north Italian painter from Leonardo's circle during the High Renaissance. Both Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio were said to have worked with Leonardo directly; he…
