Madonna with Sleeping Child (Mantegna)

Madonna with Sleeping Child
Madonna with Sleeping Child
Artist	Andrea Mantegna
Year	1465-1470
Medium	glue-tempera on canvas
Dimensions	43 cm × 32 cm (17 in × 13 in)
Location	Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

ArtistAndrea Mantegna

Year1465-1470

Mediumglue-tempera on canvas

Dimensions43 cm × 32 cm (17 in × 13 in)

The Madonna with Sleeping Child is a glue-tempera on canvas painting measuring 43 cm by 32 cm. It was painted around 1465-1470 by Andrea Mantegna and is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.^[1]^[2]

Intended for private devotion, it dispenses with the two figures' usual haloes in favour of a more intimate, simple and tender approach. Mantegna draws on Donatello's motif of Mary's face touching the child, whilst they are both enveloped in a brocade mantle against a black background.

There is a dialogue about this painting in the novel Lampioon küßt Mädchen und kleine Birken by the German writer Manfred Hausmann.

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v t e Andrea Mantegna
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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