Madonna and Child with Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Ursula

Madonna and Child with Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Ursula
Artist Giovanni Bellini
Year 1490
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 77 cm × 104 cm (30 in × 41 in)
Location Museo del Prado, Madrid

Madonna and Child with Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Ursula is an oil on panel painting by Giovanni Bellini. It belongs to the sacra conversazione genre and dates to 1490. It is now in the Prado Museum in Madrid.[1]

It is very similar to the same artist's Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Mary Magdalene in the Gallerie dell'Accademia - they both formed part of a group of paintings which show the popularity of the genre, with several replicas, mostly from Bellini's studio or only partly by his own hand, including those in Urbino and the Pierrepont Morgan Library in New York. The Madrid example shows saint Mary Magdalene and saint Ursula.

References

  1. ↑ (in Italian) Mariolina Olivari, Giovanni Bellini, in AA.VV., Pittori del Rinascimento, Scala, Firenze 2007. ISBN 888117099X
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