That’s a great look on her face:
Giovanni Bellini, 1487
A higher-resolution image is available here from the Bellini section of the Art Renewal Center website
That’s a great look on her face:
Giovanni Bellini, 1487
A higher-resolution image is available here from the Bellini section of the Art Renewal Center website
Two beautiful pictures in a row!
Is this one in a museum or where?
She’s trying to remember the sex of her child…
It’s at the Accademia in Venice, which is where I first saw it. This Bellini (there are a lot of Bellinis) is one of my favorite Venetian artists.
Bellini’s amazing madonnas, as I remember them, often have a kind of elevated look, almost a haughtiness or a self-satisfied complacency, but this one seems to be looking down at her extremely precocious son and thinking, Who is this wise guy? What have I done? I also love the background, that green panel…
She is so beautiful, that I did not even see the trees when I first looked at her. Unlike her son, whom nothing keeps from looking straight ahead, she averts her gaze — in modesty — or amazement: what have I wrought?
thanks for showing it. The Obama family picture is very good: but remember: Obama said: “……, I was not born in a manger.”