Madonna and Child - Painting at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Introduction

The assemblage of well renowned paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is indisputably one of the world's most comprehensive. Images of the Madonna and the Madonna and Child or Virgin and Child are pictorial or sculptured representations of Mary, Mother of Jesus, either solely, or more often, with the infant Jesus. These images are centered icons of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity where Mary continues a centered creative topic. No likeness (in either the Western or the to the east Church) permeates Christian art as the image of Madonna and Child. (Tomkins, pp. 8-11)

Madonna and Child (also renowned as the Stoclet Madonna or Stroganoff Madonna) is a section painting by Italian medieval creative individual Duccio di Buoninsegna. Painted in tempera with gilding on timber section round the year 1300, it depicts Mary, the mother of Jesus retaining the infant Jesus. It is encompassing the committed border; the work assesses 27.9 × 21 centimeters.

In November 2004 the painting was bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (Met) for an unrevealed addition, described to be in surplus of 45 million USD, the most costly buy ever by the museum. It was the first work by Duccio came by the Met, which acquired the painting from constituents of the Stoclet family in alignment to close a gap in its enduring collections of painting. Works by Duccio, who is advised one of the pre-eminent painters of Sienese medieval painting, are exceedingly uncommon, with only a dozen or so renowned to survive; before the Met's buy this was the last part still in personal hands. The painting is one of the couple of Duccios renowned to be conceived as a one-by-one work of art, and not part of an ensemble. (Tomkins, pp. 8-11)

The painting is occasionally called the Stoclet Madonna, after the family title of Adolphe Stoclet, its second noted proprietor, who was a Belgian industrialist in the early 20th century. The Met mentions to the painting as the Stroganoff Madonna after its first noted proprietor, Count Grigorii Stroganoff, a grave collector of early Italian paintings who passed away in Rome in 1910. Stoclet came by the painting next Stroganoff's death. After Stoclet and his wife past away in 1949, the painting was willed to their child, Jacques. His four daughters inherited the painting from his widow Anny, who passed away in June 2002. Through a sale organized by Christie's, the daughters moved ownership to the Met. (Tomkins, pp. 8-11)

The late James Beck, Professor of Art History at Columbia University in New York, accepted that Duccio's Madonna and Child, which the Met designated days to 1300, is the work of a 19th 100 years creative individual or forger founded on stylistic grounds. Professor Beck said: "We are inquired to accept as factual that the unassuming little image comprises a leap into the future of Western painting by establishing a plane in front of Mary and the Child. This characteristic, a ...