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[edit] Manchester Madonna
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| Madonna and Child with St John and Angels ("The Manchester Madonna") |
| Michelangelo, circa 1497 |
| Tempera on panel |
| 105 × 76 cm |
| National Gallery, London |
The Madonna and Child with St John and Angels (circa 1497), also known as The Manchester Madonna, is a painting by Michelangelo in the National Gallery, London. It is one of only three panel paintings by the artist to have survived to the present day. It is the earliest of these, dating to to Michelangelo's first period in Rome. The painting's attribution to Michelangelo was in doubt for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but scholars now consider it an authentic work by the master.
The scene depicted is the meeting of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child with Christ's cousin St John the Baptist, an event which is supposed to have occurred after the Holy Family's return from Egypt. The Virgin is depicted with a bare breast, as if she has recently been suckling. The Virgin breastfeeding the Christ child is a medieval theme, and its appearance at this late date is unusual. In her hands is a book which she attempts to hold away from her son, the contents of which probably foretell his future sacrifice. She looks over her left shoulder onto a scroll being read by a pair of angels; this is likely to be the scroll reading Ecce Agnus Dei ('Behold the Lamb of God') with which John the Baptist usually appears.
The figures are arranged as if in a frieze, revealing Michelangelo's sculptor's mindset. The frieze becomes more convex at its centre with the figures of Virgin and Child, as in the later Pitti Tondo. Despite the exterior setting, he has eschewed any kind of landscape for the background.
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.
The earliest record of the completed painting dates from 1700, when it was in the collection of the Borghese family. After 1765 it disappeared from the record for close to 70 years, only to re-emerge at a sale in London in 1833.
The painting's popular title refers to the fact that it was exhibited in Manchester in 1857, at the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom exhibition. It had twice been offered to the National Gallery as a work by Ghirlandaio, but had been rejected on both counts.
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| Exterior of the Chapel of Leo X, Castel Sant' Angelo | 1514 | Rome | |
| Plan for the facade of Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze | 1515–1520 | Florence | |
| Laurentian Library, Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze | 1523–1529 | Florence | |
| Fortifications of Florence | 1528–1529 | Florence | |
| St. Peter's Basilica | 1546–1564 | Rome |  |
| Vatican Fortifications | 1547–1548 | Rome | |
| Stairway in the Cortile del Belvedere | 1550–1551 | Rome | |
| San Giovanni dei Fiorentini | 1559–1560 | Rome | |
| Sforza Chapel, Santa Maria Maggiore | c. 1560 | Rome | |
| Porta Pia | 1561–1565 | Rome |  |
| Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri | 1561– | Rome | |
| Cordonata Capitolina | Rome |  |
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| Piazza del Campidoglio | 10 | Rome | |
| Palazzo Farnese | Rome |  |
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| The new Medici Chapel, New Sacristy ,Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze | Florence |
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- Disambiguate an artwork by adding its artist's name in brackets after the title. Do not specify the medium of the work unless it is necessary for disambiguation (that is, if the artist produced another work of the same title but in a different medium).
- Ship of Fools (painting) → Ship of Fools (Bosch)
- The Kiss (Rodin sculpture) → The Kiss (Rodin)
- Michelangelo's David → David (Michelangelo)
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- Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio) (London) → Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio, London version)
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- Madonna and Child (Raphael, London) → Aldobrandini Madonna
- Venus at her Toilet (Velàzquez) → Rokeby Venus
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- The Wilton Diptych → Wilton Diptych
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In the original sense of the word, a cartoon (from the Italian cartone and Dutch/Flemish word "karton",[citation needed] meaning strong, heavy paper or pasteboard) is a full-size drawing made on paper, intended to be copied directly in a more finished work. They were first used by stained glass artists, and were adopted by painters in the 14th century. The use of cartoons was essential in fresco painting, due to the impossibility of correcting mistakes in that medium. accurately linked the component parts of the composition when painted onto plaster over a series of days. Pinpricks are usually visible on cartoons where the outline of the design has been picked out in the plaster.
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