The ‘Madonna and Child’ was painted by an unknown artist. One couldn’t possibly identify the author of pictures by the Stupin Painting School because he was a serf. Pyotr Kornilov, an art historian, wrote at the beginning of the 19th century that the Stupin school was “the only seminary of art knowledge for serf talent”. This is exactly the reason why a lot of works remain unattributed.
Madonna and Child
Creation period
1st half of the 19th century
Dimensions
75x56 cm
Technique
oil on canvas
Exhibition
4
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The picture shows the Virgin, who sits leaning on her left elbow. In her right hand, she holds the Child Jesus. She is wearing light coloured clothes and a piece of brown cloth on her head. The canvas is set in an oval frame.
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The Virgin holding a child in hands was a key image in Byzantine iconography and Renaissance painting. The subject was always the focus of salvation stories. Originally, the Virgin with a child was portrayed in conformity with canons established by the Second Council at Nicaea in 787 AD. Western culture in the 12th century and Renaissance painting later did not deny that the Holy Virgin’s image was an icon, but an icon with attributes imparting it human symbolism.
Various European artists have contributed their perception of the Holy Virgin imagery to art. For example, the Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels (otherwise Madonna Enthroned or Ognissanti Madonna), painted by Giotto, an Italian artist, in 1310, made a revolution for the Ognissanti Church in Florence. He portrayed the Virgin as a sad woman holding her baby tight.
In the 15th century, the ‘Madonna and Child’ went outside the limits of a purely sacral subject. Pictures of this kind were ordered my gentlemen of society and church officials. The subject was especially popular in Italy and Florence. In Venice, it was among the favourite subjects of Giovanni Bellini’s, who painted the “Madonna and Child” in Brera. Madonna made popular another Italian painter, Rafael Santi. He painted small pictures with the Holy Mother holding plump babies, like in his most famous work, the “Sistine Madonna”.
Russia hosts several prominent Madonna pictures, including Leonardo’s Benois Madonna and Madonna Litta, now held by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
Various European artists have contributed their perception of the Holy Virgin imagery to art. For example, the Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels (otherwise Madonna Enthroned or Ognissanti Madonna), painted by Giotto, an Italian artist, in 1310, made a revolution for the Ognissanti Church in Florence. He portrayed the Virgin as a sad woman holding her baby tight.
In the 15th century, the ‘Madonna and Child’ went outside the limits of a purely sacral subject. Pictures of this kind were ordered my gentlemen of society and church officials. The subject was especially popular in Italy and Florence. In Venice, it was among the favourite subjects of Giovanni Bellini’s, who painted the “Madonna and Child” in Brera. Madonna made popular another Italian painter, Rafael Santi. He painted small pictures with the Holy Mother holding plump babies, like in his most famous work, the “Sistine Madonna”.
Russia hosts several prominent Madonna pictures, including Leonardo’s Benois Madonna and Madonna Litta, now held by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
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History and Art Museum of the сity of Arzamas, a municipal budget institution of culture, Nizhny Novgorod Region
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Madonna and Child
Creation period
1st half of the 19th century
Dimensions
75x56 cm
Technique
oil on canvas
Exhibition
4
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