The Madonna and Child with Saints Joseph, Elizabeth, and John the Baptist (Q3944468)

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genre: religious art (Q2864737)
artist: Andrea Mantegna (Q5681)
collection: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
material used: distemper (Q1169888) oil paint (Q296955) gold leaf (Q929186) canvas (Q12321255)
depicts: Christ Child (Q942467) boy (Q3010) Virgin Mary (Q345) woman (Q467) Child Saint John (Q1698874)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: 0wGjDVr3zIGoeA

catalog URL: https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-198704

information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog

description: Trained in the humanist university town of Padua, Andrea Mantegna developed a lifelong passion for antiquity that profoundly informed his work as an artist. His incisive drawing, brilliant coloring, and novel spatial effects soon established him as one of the major artists of his day and led to his appointment as court painter to the Gonzaga family in the duchy of Mantua. His famous, frescoed “Camera Picta” in the Ducal Palace was described by a contemporary as “the most beautiful room in the world.”

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