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Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child

c. 1490–1500
(Italian, c. 1454–1513)
Framed: 75.5 x 60 x 11 cm (29 3/4 x 23 5/8 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 45.5 x 34.2 cm (17 15/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

Bernardino di Betto, called Pinturicchio, is said to have acquired his nickname ("little painter") because of his small stature, and used it to sign some of his paintings. Born in Perugia, the provincial capital of Umbria, he trained under local artists, eventually becoming a paid assistant of the painter Perugino. He is known to have assisted Perugino on his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and eventually established his own reputation as a respected artist. Many of his commissions were for churches and wealthy families in Umbria and elsewhere. Though the source of this painting is unknown, it was likely produced for a home or private chapel.
  • The painting has been subjected to numerous interventive conservation campaigns throughout its lifetime. This has included the thinning of the primary support, subsequent transfer, and cradling, as well as several aesthetic campaigns to reintegrate severely damaged areas primarily concentrated within the sky and the Madonna’s mantle. Although the painting is structurally stable, the painting is now undergoing treatment in the Painting Conservation Lab to readdress areas of significant loss and abrasion through new approaches to inpainting.
  • (Duveen, and Kleinberger, 1915)
  • Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Reproduced: p. [11], Plate I, cat. no. 11; Mentioned: p. 26, cat. no. 11 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 402 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Reproduced: fig. 42, p. 118 - 120
    Miller, Michael J. "A Madonna and Child from Pintoricchio's Sienese Period." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 8 (1991): 326-59. Reproduced: cover, p. 327, 330-31, 340; Mentioned: p. 326-59 www.jstor.org
    Bé, Kenneth. "Conservation Treatment of the Pintoricchio Madonna and Child." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 8 (1991): 360-73. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 360-73 www.jstor.org
    "1991 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 6 (1992): 155-231. Mentioned: p. 186 www.jstor.org
    Ugolini, Stefano. La Cultura Peruginesca attorno alla Madonna del Feltro. Perugia: Fondazione Cassa Risparmio: Fabrizio Fabbri, 2016. Mentioned: p. 114; Reproduced: Tav. XVIII
  • {{cite web|title=Virgin and Child|url=false|author=Pintoricchio|year=c. 1490–1500|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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