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    • Madonna and Child, probably late 1480s
    Giovanni Bellini (Italian, Venetian, active by 1459, died 1516)
    Oil on wood

    35 x 28 in. (88.9 x 71.1 cm)
    Rogers Fund, 1908 (08.183.1)

    This beautiful picture, probably painted in the late 1480s, is a work of Giovanni Bellini's maturity. Unusually, the cloth of honor behind the figures is off center, revealing a distant landscape that in its light and atmosphere anticipates the works of Giorgione and Titian. The fine Venetian frame dates from the early sixteenth century.

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  • Christiansen, Keith. "Duccio and the Origins of Western Painting." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 66, no. 1 (Summer, 2008).
  • Bayer, Andrea. "North of the Apennines: Sixteenth-Century Italian Painting in Venice and the Veneto." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 63, no. 1 (Summer, 2005).
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    • "Beyond the Triumvirate: The Genius of Venice" PDF
    • "Director's Note" PDF
    • "Introduction" PDF
    • "The Triumvirate: Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto" PDF
  • Norman, Jane. "How to Look at Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 28, no. 5 (January, 1970).
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  • Madonna and Child, probably late 1480s
    Giovanni Bellini (Italian, Venetian, active by 1459, died 1516)
    Oil on wood

    35 x 28 in. (88.9 x 71.1 cm)
    Rogers Fund, 1908 (08.183.1)