Madonna and Child (Mantegna, Bergamo)

Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child
Artist	Andrea Mantegna
Completion date	1490-1500
Medium	tempera on flax canvas
Dimensions	43 cm × 31 cm (17 in × 12 in)
Location	Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

ArtistAndrea Mantegna

Completion date1490-1500

Mediumtempera on flax canvas

Dimensions43 cm × 31 cm (17 in × 12 in)

Madonna and Child is a magra-tempera on flax canvas painting by Andrea Mantegna, dating to 1490-1500 or (according to Mauro Lucco) 1463-1465 .^[1] It is now in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo.^[2]^[3] It dates to after the painter's trip to Rome and belongs to a group of small-format Madonnas for private devotion - others include Madonna with Sleeping Child (Berlin), the Poldi Pezzoli Madonna and the Butler Madonna (New York).^[4] The Bergamo work is unique among them in that it has a happy rather than melancholic atmosphere. The Christ Child wears a coral bracelet, formerly an apotropaic symbol and also a foreshadowing of his Passion.^[5]

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Paintings	Saint Mark (1448) Ovetari Chapel (1448–1457) Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1450–1451) Saint Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1451) San Luca Altarpiece (1453) Saint James Led to His Execution (c. 1453–1455) Saint Euphemia (1454) Presentation at the Temple (c. 1455) Christ Child Blessing (1455–1460) Agony in the Garden (c. 1458) Crucifixion (1459) Agony in the Garden (c. 1459) Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan (c. 1459–1460) Saint Bernardino of Siena Between Two Angels (1460) Death of the Virgin and Christ Bearing the Soul of the Virgin (c. 1461) Portrait of a Man (c. 1460) Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga (c. 1461) Madonna with Sleeping Child (c. 1470) Saint George (c. 1460) San Zeno Altarpiece (1460) Saint Sebastian (Vienna; c. 1459) Uffizi Triptych (Ascension; Circumcision; Adoration of the Magi) (1462) The Circumcision (1464) Portrait of Carlo de' Medici (c. 1459–1466) Saint Sebastian (Paris; c. 1480) Madonna of the Cherubim (c. 1485) Triumphs of Caesar (c. 1486) Christ as the Suffering Redeemer (c. 1488–1500) Lamentation of Christ (c. 1490) Madonna of the Caves (1490) Saint Sebastian (Venice; 1490) Madonna and Child with Three Saints (1490–1500) Resurrection (1492–1493) Descent into Limbo (1492–1493) Christ the Redeemer (1493) Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Dublin; c. 1495) Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Washington; 1495) Exemplary Women of Antiquity (1495–1500) Sibyl and Prophet (1495–1500) Madonna della Vittoria (1496) Trivulzio Madonna (1497) Parnassus (Mars and Venus) (1497) Ecce Homo (c. 1500) Holy Family (c. 1500) Triumph of the Virtues (c. 1502) The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome (c. 1505–1506) Baptism of Christ (1506)
Frescoes	Camera degli Sposi (1465–1474)
Related	Mantegna funerary chapel

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