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Cleveland Museum of Art97139portraitLeonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519)c. 1500CC0cma sacred-art portraits objects-with-gravity sacred art objects with gravity virgin mary jesus child portrait renaissance oil painting religious art italian art muted colors soft light serene classical mother and child 16th century gold accents virgin andLeonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519) c. 1500 Italy, early 16th Century oil on wood Painting European ReligiousSacred & Devotional Faces in Time Objects with Gravity
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Virgin and Child by Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519) (c. 1500). Holden Collection Rights: CC0. https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.779
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Madonna and Child appear in half-length, seated against a dark wall. The Child's body is covered in shadow as he looks over his shoulder at his mother. This painting was bought by James Jackson Jarves as a Leonardo. The landscape and features of the figures are similar to Leonardo's Madonna of the Rocks , and in typical Leonardesque fashion, the figures' heads incline slightly to the left. However, Virgin and Child was later attributed to a member of Leonardo's circle named Francesco Napolitano (active 1500) because of its resemblance to his Madonna and Child with St. Sebastian and St. John the Baptist in Zurich, Switzerland. Virgin and Child has not been widely accepted as a work of Napolitano; however, he was certainly a member of Leonardo's circle. The Sforzesco Castle, the seat of Milan's ruling Sforza family, appears in the background. The castle's original Torre del Filarete, visible in this painting, was destroyed by lightning in 1521 and later rebuilt by Francesco II Sforza. The destruction of the tower establishes a date of about 1500 for this painting.
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A serene portrait depicts the Virgin Mary holding her infant son, Jesus, in a contemplative pose.
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