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Madonna with Writing Child | |
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Artist | Pinturicchio |
Year | c. 1494-1498 |
Medium | Oil on panel |
Dimensions | 61 cm × 41.6 cm (24 in × 16.4 in) |
Location | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
The Madonna with the Christ Child Writing is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Pinturicchio, painted around 1494-1498 and housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in the United States.
The painting is derived from the Madonna of Peace (c. 1490), a simplification for a less acculturated commissioner, perhaps a private family. The Virgin sits on a kind of cask, and is offering a book to the Child, who writes on it. The garments of the Child are perhaps inspired by the late Byzantine mosaics seen by Pinturicchio in Rome.
In the background is a small depiction of the Flight into Egypt and two symmetrical trees, one which is a palm, a symbol of martyrdom.