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Madonna and Sleeping Child (Madonna of the Veil)

Ambrogio Bergognone

Madonna and Sleeping Child (Madonna of the Veil)

Ambrogio Bergognone
  • Date: c.1512 - c.1515; Italy  
  • Style: High Renaissance
  • Genre: religious painting
  • Media: tempera
  • Location: Palazzo Brera, Milan, Italy
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Set in a shadowy interior, the Virgin has momentarily ceased praying to cover Jesus with a transparent veil as he sleeps in her lap. The iconography alludes to the Passion and death of Christ and to the shroud that will swathe his body, a theme also echoed by the cherries slipping from his hand, prompting us to meditate on this mystery. The window opens out onto a scene of everyday life on a canal, hinting at the presence of the divine in our daily lives.

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