Artwork
Virgin and Child
Virgin and Child is an unspecified painting by the Mannerist artist Sebastiano Serlio. It dates from 1522 and is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst.
About this work
Subject & Meaning
The painting depicts the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, a composition classified under the main subject of Madonna and Child. As a work of religious art, the piece focuses on these two central figures, presenting the traditional iconography of the Mother and her son. Created by Sebastiano Serlio in 1522, the artwork serves as a representation of this fundamental Christian theme.
Technique & Style
The work is an oil painting on panel created in 1522 by Sebastiano Serlio. It measures 280.0 cm by 240.0 cm and depicts the Madonna and Child in a religious composition. The stylistic qualities reflect early 16th-century Italian religious art, characterized by formal arrangement and devotional emphasis.
History & Provenance
The Virgin and Child by Sebastiano Serlio is held in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, where it carries the inventory number KMSsp754.
The painting was exhibited in 2012 as part of the show Sebastiano Serlio: Drawings, Treatises, and Paintings held at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
Overview
Created in 1522, the Virgin and Child is a modestly sized panel that presents the biblical pair in a quiet, intimate setting.
Created in 1522, the Virgin and Child is a modestly sized panel that presents the biblical pair in a quiet, intimate setting. Executed by Sebastiano Serlio, better known for his architectural writings, the work reflects the artist’s engagement with the Mannerist idiom that was spreading across Italy in the early sixteenth century. Today the painting belongs to the collection of Denmark’s Statens Museum for Kunst.
Artist & collection
Artist
Sebastiano Serlio (6 September 1475 – c. 1554) was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the classical orders of architecture in…
