A rare early Botticelli painting of the Madonna and Child, valued at £10.2 million ... for a British institution to secure the work for the nation. The Virgin and Child Enthroned (1470s), which sold ...

Dirty realism doesn’t appear in art for ... Virgin and Child (1290) reaches up to pull at his mother’s blue veil, a charmingly ordinary touch that is neutralised by the Madonna’s blankly ...

At 6m, the Enthroned Madonna Adored by Saints, a lush swirl of flesh, fabric and drapes, stands taller than an adult giraffe. A team of six restorers is poring over it for a two-year cleanup, which is ...

In the beginning there was Cimabue, “who was to shed the first light on the art of painting ... Collection in New York, and the “Madonna and Child Enthroned between Two Angels ...

132; Catalogue des Objets d'Art Ancien pour l'année 1910 ... Mazzalupi, in Brera mai vista: Pittura di luce, La Madonna col Bambino del Maestro di Pratovecchio, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2011, pp.

At the entrance to "Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350," an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on view through Jan. 25, hangs a small Byzantine icon of the Virgin and Child ...

One could say that some paintings in the exhibition “Siena: The Rising of Painting, 1300-1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in ... like a Byzantine painting than an early Renaissance one. All in ...

Striking a different note is the affecting Byzantine icon of the Madonna ... Website; Directions San Zaccaria: ‘Madonna Enthroned with Child and Saints’, 1505, by Giovanni Bellini Bellini ...

The exhibition begins with Duccio’s small rendering of the Virgin and Child known as the Stoclet Madonna ... two-dimensional world of Byzantine art to become dynamic actors in a fully three ...

While the contemporary art ... Byzantine icon painting and the perspective of the early Renaissance. In 2004, the Met shelled out $45 million for an 11-by-8-inch gold-ground panel, Madonna and ...

In contrast to the usual more rigid depiction of the Madonna enthroned ... foot of the Child in her hand as he sits on her knee, her left arm encircling his waist to support him. The origins of this ...