The Madonna Adoring the Infant Christ

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This work has been traditionally associated with the great Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli. However, although the stylisation of the Virgin's face is very reminiscent of Botticelli, the painting as a whole lacks either his vitality of line or originality of composition. Instead it has a compelling simplicity, even naïvety. It has been suggested recently that the artist was Jacopo del Sellaio who, like Botticelli, had also been a pupil of Filippo Lippi, but the lively pose of the Christ child and of the Virgin appear to derive from the Virgin and child in Botticelli's 'Mystic Nativity' now in the National Gallery, London. That is dated 1500, several years after Jacopo's death.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

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Title

The Madonna Adoring the Infant Christ

Date

c.1505

Medium

oil & tempera on poplar panel

Measurements

H 92.7 x W 54.2 cm

Accession number

K1659

Acquisition method

bequeathed by F. P. M. Schiller, 1946

Work type

Painting

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