The pupil of Bellini Vittore Carpaccio, who introduced into the religious plot purely Venetian naturalistic details, did not forget that the picture must first of all be a decoration and pleasing to the eye. He possessed a magnificent fantasy and loved cheerful, bright colors, which could not be better than the style of easel Venetian painting.
The artist endured the action of biblical tales in the modern festive atmosphere of city life. The Virgin with the Child is represented sitting on the background of a recognizable medieval landscape with high towers, a majestic castle on the mountain and a stone bridge, thrown across a deep river.
In the clouds of the setting sun, the heads of two angels with wings of butterflies flutter, whose faces are so individual that the master probably wrote them from specific children. Madonna’s pose is calmly calm, she is busy reading, but at the same time looks after her divine Son, who with a gesturing gesture contemplates the world around him.
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