Virgin and Child before a Landscape

Gallery 313, European Art 1100-1500, third floor

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Virgin and Child before a Landscape

c. 1490

Vincenzo Foppa (Italian (active Milan), born 1427/30, died 1515/16)

Vincenzo Foppa painted many versions of this scene, in which the Virgin nurses the Christ Child before an elaborately brocaded curtain set against a distant Lombard landscape. The intensity of expression, silver-gray flesh tones, and sculptural quality of the figures seen in this panel are characteristic of the painter, who drew on a variety of artistic influences during his career working across northern Italy.

Gallery 313, European Art 1100-1500, third floor

Object Details

Title:

Virgin and Child before a Landscape

Date:

c. 1490

Artist:

Vincenzo Foppa (Italian (active Milan), born 1427/30, died 1515/16)

Medium:

Oil and gold on panel

Dimensions:

17 1/4 x 13 5/16 inches (43.8 x 33.8 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Accession Number:

Cat. 257

Geography:

Made in Italy, Europe

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Gallery 313, European Art 1100-1500, third floor

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