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Solario most probably trained as a painter in Venice, where he would have been aware of the works of Giovanni Bellini, the city’s most highly regarded painter. This picture shows the influence of Bellini’s images of the Virgin and Child that were made for private worship. The holy figures stand before a vast landscape with mountains, the most distant of which are clothed in haze, and the view is partially obscured by a hanging – all features that are found in Bellini’s paintings. Christ stands on the stone parapet which separates us from the Virgin and Saint John the Baptist, Christ’s cousin. Even though he is an infant here, John is shown wearing the camel-skin tunic and holding the reed cross that refer to his time in the desert, when he prophesied about Christ’s ministry.
Title
The Virgin and Child with Saint John
Date
perhaps about 1500-10
Medium
Oil on canvas, transferred from wood
Measurements
H 36.5 x W 29.8 cm
Accession number
NG2503
Acquisition method
Salting Bequest, 1910
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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