Manchester Madonna
Madonna and Child with St John and Angels | |
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National Gallery, London |
The Madonna and Child with St John and Angels (c. 1497), also known as The Manchester Madonna, is an unfinished painting in the National Gallery, London, attributed to Michelangelo.[1] It is one of three surviving panel paintings attributed to the artist and has been dated to his first period in Rome. The work first came to public attention in the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester in 1857, hence the title the "Manchester Madonna".[2] Attribution of the painting to Michelangelo was in doubt for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but now most scholars are in agreement.[3]
Like other
The figures are arranged as if in a
Many areas of the painting are in a preliminary state. The black of the Virgin's robe was meant to be overpainted with the rich blue pigment, lapis lazuli, and the angels on the left are indicated only by the green underpaint used for flesh tones in a kind of non finito.
Attribution
The completed angel nearest the Virgin is noted as being similar to a sketch the young Michelangelo made while he was apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandaio.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Michelangelo | 'The Manchester Madonna' | NG809 | National Gallery, London".
- ^ Cookson 2002, p. 121
- ^ "National Gallery". Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
- ^ Ramsden, E. H. (1978) [1963]. Michelangelo (The Great Artists: A library of their lives, times and paintings. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. I.
Sources
- Cookson, Roy (2002), A World of Manchesters, Castherman Books, ISBN 0-9542404-0-5
External links
Media related to Manchester Madonna at Wikimedia Commons
- David Ward, "Michelangelo's Madonna returns to Manchester", The Guardian, 05-10-2007