The Virgin and Child

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Probably dating from the 1480s, this painting is a fine example of a type of intimate devotional image popularised by Giovanni Bellini. Montagna, a leading painter in Vicenza, may have worked in Bellini's studio in Venice in the 1470s. The Child holds a goldfinch, a symbol of the Passion since the blood of Christ was said to have fallen on the bird's feathers on the way to Calvary.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

The Virgin and Child

Date

1480–1489

Medium

tempera & oil (?) on panel

Measurements

H 34 x W 28 cm

Accession number

WA1946.202

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Gaspard O. Farrer through the Art Fund, 1946

Work type

Painting

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