Giotto

Giotto di Bondone

Florentine, c. 1265 - 1337

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A woman with pale skin holds a baby in the crook of her left arm, on our right, against a gold background in this vertical, arched wooden panel. The woman is shown from the waist up with her body angled slightly to our right. She wears a dark blue mantle that drapes over her head and shoulders, and across her body. The garment has a gold border and celery-green lining where it turns over at her wrists and chest. There is a gold starburst-like symbol on her right shoulder, our left, and she holds a stylized rose with her right hand. The baby is nude except for a translucent white cloth, also edged with a gold border, wrapped around his waist and legs. His face and body look more like a small man than a baby, but there are baby-like rolls at his wrists. He has blond wavy hair. He grips the woman's forefinger on the hand that holds his body, and he reaches for the rose she holds with his other hand. The gold background is punched to create halos around their heads and decorative bands along the inner edge of the curving, arched top.
Giotto, Madonna and Child, c. 1310/1315, tempera on poplar panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.256

Madonna and Child

Giotto · c. 1310/1315 · tempera on poplar panel ·  Accession ID  1939.1.256

Bibliography

1938

  • Salvini, Roberto. Giotto: bibliografia. Rome, 1938.

1951

  • Meiss, Millard. Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death. Princeton, 1951.

1960

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1967

  • Previtali, Giovanni. Giotto e la sua bottega. Milan, 1967.

1973

  • De Benedictis, Cristina. Giotto: Bibliografia, Vol. 2 (1937-1970). Rome, 1973.

  • Martinelli, Valentino. “Un documento per Giotto ad Assisi.” Storia dell’arte 19 (1973): 193-208.

1974

  • Previtali, Giovanni. Giotto e la sua bottega. 2nd ed. Milan, 1974.

1985

  • Bellosi, Luciano. La pecora di Giotto. Turin, 1985.

1993

  • Previtali, Giovanni, and Giovanna Ragionieri. Giotto e la sua bottega. Edited by Alessandro Conti. 3rd ed. Milan, 1993.

1994

  • Bonsanti, Giorgio, and Miklós Boskovits. “Giotto o solo un parente? Una discussione.” Arte Cristiana 81 (1994): 299-310.

1995

  • Flores d’Arcais, Francesca. Giotto. Milan, 1995.

1996

  • Gilbert, Creighton E. “Giotto di Bondone.” In The Dictionary of Art. Edited by Jane Turner. 34 vols. New York and London, 1996: 12:681-696.

1999

  • Schwarz, Michael Viktor, and Pia Theis. “Giotto’s Father: Old Stories and New Documents.” The Burlington Magazine 141 (1999): 676-677.

2000

  • Tartuferi, Angelo, ed. Giotto: bilancio critico di sessant’anni di studi e ricerche. Exh. cat. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, 2000.

2004

  • Derbes, Anne, and Mark Sandona, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Giotto. Cambridge Companions to the History of Art. Cambridge, 2004.

  • Schwarz, Michael Viktor, and Pia Theis. Giottus pictor, 1: Giottos Leben. Vienna, 2004.

2008

  • Schwarz, Michael Viktor, and Michaela Zöschg. Giottus pictor, 2: Giottos Werke. Vienna, 2008.

2016

  • Boskovits, Miklós. Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2016: 138-139.