Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, early 1460s, Tempera on wood, 28 1/2 x 18 1/4 in. (72.4 x 46.4 cm), Paintings, Giovanni Bellini (Italian, Venice, active by 1459–died 1516 Venice), This is an important early work by Giovanni Bellini, the greatest painter of fifteenth-century Venice and one of the key figures of European painting. Datable to the mid-1460s, its hard, linear quality is indebted to the example of Bellini’s brother-in-law, Andrea Mantegna, as well as to the sculpture of Donatello, which Bellini studied in Padua
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Madonna Adoring, Sleeping Child, early 1460s, Tempera, wood, 28 1/2 x 18 1/4, 72.4 46.4 cm, Paintings, Giovanni Bellini, Italian, Venice, active by, 1459–died, 1516, important early work, greatest painter, fifteenth-century Venice, key figures, European painting, Datable, mid-1460s, hard, linear quality, indebted, example, Bellini, brother, law, Andrea Mantegna, well, sculpture, Donatello, Bellini studied, Padua
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