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Madonna and Child in Painted Frame

Staatliche Museen, Berlin

religious

This enigmatic Madonna and Child is still rooted in the style of Jacopo Bellini. The painting is sometimes given to one of three pupils of Squarcione - Giorgio Schiavone, Marco Zoppo, or Mantegna. Putti painted on the picture's original frame continue the Madonna's mournful message: they hold the instruments of the Passion, each group separated by clusters of cherub heads.

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Madonna and Child in Painted Frame

About the Artist

Lazzaro Bastiani

1430 – 1512

Italian painter, active in Venice. In his early maturity, Bastiani can be described as close to the manner of Bartolomeo Vivarini and Andrea del Castagno. Subsequently, his painting moved nearer to that of Gentile Bellini, albeit in a more archaising taste, as may be observed in the almost rigid figures and the strictly defined and delimited spaces.

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