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Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist - Giovanni Bellini (1490–1495) Oil on panel (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I really enjoy the contrast in this piece between the precise Mary and the realistic texture of her clothes and the cherubs looking like jelly babies, along with some odd looking kids. I honestly can't think why they made choices they did.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, the eyes are definitely too high - should be centre of the skull. This is early renaissance, I guess they dlhadnt got proportions down yet.