Madonna and Child with an Angel

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Madonna and Child with an Angel (Botticelli)

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Madonna and Child with an Angel
Artist Sandro Botticelli
Year 1465-1467
Type Tempera on panel
Dimensions 87 cm × 60 cm (34 in × 24 in)
Location Spedale degli Innocenti, Florence

The Madonna and Child with an Angel is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, c. 1465-1467. It is housed in Spedale degli Innocenti of Florence.

The painting, one of Botticelli's earliest, reveals Botticelli's close artistic relationship with his teacher, Filippo Lippi, and is modelled on the latter's The Virgin and Child with Two Angels.[1]

References

  1. ^ Deimling, Barbara (2007). Sandro Botticelli 1444/5 - 1510. Cologne, Germany: Taschen. p. 12. ISBN 978-3-8228-5992-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=VjHEhT5wRiwC. 

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