Madonna and Child (Bellini, Detroit)

Painting by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Artist| Giovanni Bellini
Year| 1509
Medium| oil on panel
Dimensions| 80 cm × 106 cm (31 in × 42 in)
Location| Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Website| Catalogue entry

The Madonna and Child or Madonna with the Christ Child Blessing is a 1509 oil-on-panel painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, commissioned by the Mocenigo family and remaining with them until 1815. It is now in the Detroit Institute of Arts.

## Similar works and symbolism

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It shows similarities to his 1505 Madonna del Prato (London) and his 1510 Madonna and Child (Milan); all three have a Giorgione-influenced landscape background (here with a shepherd or villager), separated from the figures by a green curtain and with hazy blue mountains in the far background obeying the rules of aerial perspective. The landscape or meadow in the background symbolises the medieval symbol of Mary's virginity, the hortus conclusus. In her left hand Mary holds a book, a symbol of her fulfilment of Old Testament prophecies; on its front cover are the date and the artist's signature.[1]

## Ownership

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It was recorded as belonging to Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry and hanging in Palazzo Vendramin Calergi (her Venetian home) between around 1844 and 1854 before an attempt was made to auction it in Paris on 19 April 1865 on behalf of the Duchesse du Berry or her son Henri, Count of Chambord. However, it did not sell and so remained with the Duchesse, who moved it to Austria in 1868. It passed to the Count on her death in 1870, then to his widow Maria Theresa in 1883 and finally to the Count's niece on Maria Theresa's death. The niece died in 1893, passing it to another member of the Bourbon family, Jaime, Duke of Madrid. Its final private owner was the Vicomte de Canson, who sold it to its present owner in 1928.

## See also

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* Christ Child Blessing (1460)
* Madonna and Child (Bellini, Milan, 1510)

## References

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1. ^ (in Italian) Mariolina Olivari, Giovanni Bellini, in AA.VV., Pittori del Rinascimento, Scala, Firenze 2007. ISBN 888117099X

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List of works

Paintings|

* Saint Jerome in the Desert (Birmingham)
* Madonna and Child (Pavia)
* Transfiguration (Venice)
* Pietà (Bergamo)
* Crucifixion
* Pietà (Milan)
* Agony in the Garden
* Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels
* Presentation at the Temple
* Christ Blessing (Paris)
* Frizzoni Madonna
* Madonna and Child Blessing
* The Blood of the Redeemer
* Madonna and Child (Milan, 1460–1465)
* Greek Madonna
* Nativity Triptych
* Saint Vincent Ferrer Altarpiece
* San Lorenzo Triptych
* San Sebastiano Triptych
* Triptych of the Madonna
* Head of Saint John the Baptist
* Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Berlin)
* Dead Christ Supported by Angels (Rimini)
* The Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin and Saint John
* Lehman Madonna
* Pesaro Altarpiece
* Portrait of Georg Fugger
* Lochis Madonna
* Madonna and Child (Verona)
* Enthroned Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child
* Madonna and Child (Venice, 1475)
* Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child
* Saint Francis in Ecstasy
* Contarini Madonna
* Resurrection of Christ
* Portrait of a Humanist
* Transfiguration of Christ (Naples)
* Willys Madonna
* Saint Jerome in the Desert (Florence)
* Saint Jerome Reading in a Landscape (London)
* Alzano Madonna
* Madonna of the Red Cherubim
* Madonna and Child (New York, late 1480s)
* San Giobbe Altarpiece
* Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and Saint Sebastian
* Madonna of the Small Trees
* Barbarigo Altarpiece
* Frari Triptych
* Madonna and Child with Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Ursula
* Portrait of a Young Man in Red
* Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
* Portrait of a Young Man (Paris)
* Holy Allegory
* Portrait of a Young Senator
* Allegories
* Portrait of a Condottiero
* Annunciation
* Christ Blessing (Fort Worth)
* Circumcision of Christ*
* Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Florence)
* Portrait of a Young Man (Washington)
* Self-Portrait
* Portrait of a Young Man (Liverpool)
* Baptism of Christ
* Head of the Redeemer
* Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan
* Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and a Female Saint
* Martinengo Pietà
* Portrait of a Young Man (Royal Collection)
* Saint Jerome in the Desert (Washington)
* San Zaccaria Altarpiece
* Madonna del Prato
* Portrait of the Loredan Family
* The Infant Bacchus
* Sacred Conversation (Madrid)
* Saint Mark Preaching in Alexandria
* The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr
* Madonna and Child with Four Saints and Donor
* The Continence of Scipio
* Madonna and Child (Detroit)
* Madonna and Child (Rome)
* Madonna and Child (Milan, 1510)
* Virgin in Glory with Saints
* Saints Christopher, Jerome and Louis of Toulouse
* The Feast of the Gods
* Drunkenness of Noah
* Naked Young Woman in Front of a Mirror
* Portrait of Fra Teodoro of Urbino as Saint Dominic
* Deposition

Other|

* Martyrdom of Saint Maurice and his Comrades (illuminated manuscript; attributed)

Related|

* San Zaccaria, Venice (1995 photograph)
* Venetian Renaissance

Family|

* Jacopo Bellini (father)
* Gentile Bellini (brother)
* Andrea Mantegna (brother-in-law)

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