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Madonna and Child 1518

by Boccaccio Boccaccino

Although from Cremona, Boccaccio Boccaccino spent considerable time in Venice: the manner in which the Virgin is posed before a cloth of honor with a distant landscape derives from works by Giovanni Bellini. This charming picture, in which the child tempts a goldfish with a cherry, dates from around 1506–18 (the goldfinch is symbolic of Christ's Passion). [br] Notes: The...

Credit:: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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