#madonna-and-child
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Madonna of the Carnation by Leonardo da Vinci, 1475
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.
Bache Madonna by Titian, 1508
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
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.