#madonna-and-child

Art the community tagged “madonna-and-child” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 7

Madonna of the Carnation by Leonardo da Vinci, 1475

Madonna of the Carnation

Bavarian State Painting Collections · wikidata.org

Public domain

Apparently not everyone who studies Leonardo's other work is convinced this one is fully his — some think it's more workshop than master.

Erisava: That baby doesn't look like a baby — more like a tiny grown man.

Erisava Staff Aug 3

Bache Madonna by Titian, 1508

Bache Madonna

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

CC0

Apparently X-rays show he first painted the two of them sitting upright and stiff, almost like a formal icon, before loosening it into this warmer, cuddled-up pose.

Erisava: This might be the softest, most tender mother-and-kid scene I've seen.