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The Virgin is seated on the ground in a rural landscape outside a sixteenth-century town, as the ‘Madonna of Humility’. The Christ Child lies across her lap, and gazes up at her while she looks down tenderly. Our viewpoint is very low, so we are also looking up at the Virgin, like Christ. The group of the Virgin and Child is probably derived from an influential fresco by Titian of about 1523 in the Doge’s Palace, Venice, destroyed in the fire of 1574. Tiny figures in the landscape go about their daily lives, unaware of the holy figures in their midst. The golden light of dawn breaks, gilding the edges of the blue-grey clouds and outlining the Madonna and Child who inhabit and dominate this contemporary landscape, as a permanent presence and reminder of heaven on earth.
Title
The Madonna and Child
Date
probably 1525-35
Medium
Oil on wood
Measurements
H 77.5 x W 102.9 cm
Accession number
NG2907
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Lady Lindsay, 1912
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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