The model found that Raphael likely painted the Madonna, the Christ Child, and St. John the Baptist himself. But St. Joseph? He appears to have been added later—by a different hand.

The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.

It seems not to have been delivered until 1507. The Madonna and Child tells a story: Christ surges across his mother’s lap to grasp a yarnwinder, a cruciform device that symbolises the crucifixion.

Images of the Madonna and Child in a rose garden were popular. “Madonna in a Rose Bower” (1440-1442) (20”x16”) (oil and tempera on wood panel) by German painter Stefan Lochner (1410-1451) is a ...

Frankfurt’s Städel Museum sits majestically on the Museumsufer, the banks along the river Main that plays host to numerous museums and art venues. With its astonishing permanent collection of ...

The most human episode in the life of Christ is the depiction by Simone Martini of Christ Discovered in the Temple, in which a cross St Joseph gestures towards a reproachful Virgin.

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist 91.4 x 60 cm. (36 x 23.6 in.) Master of 1493 Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist 91.4 x 60 cm. (36 x 23.6 in.) View to Scale Medium tempera and ...

The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and the Infant St. John the Baptist ("The Burlington House Cartoon"), Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1506-8 The National Gallery, London ...

The early Mannerist master’s towering The Madonna and Child With Saints John the Baptist and Jerome (1525-27) will resurface after 10 years of conservation in the exhibition “ Parmigianino ...

In the first room, we see Michelangelo’s unfinished “Taddei Tondo” from around 1504-5, a hulking round marble relief of the Virgin and Child with the infant St. John the Baptist.

It represents a curly-haired, chubby Christ Child squirming upon his mother’s lap, as if trying to wriggle away from a goldfinch, symbolising the Passion, held by the infant St John the Baptist.

View The Holy Family with John the Baptist and St Elizabeth (Madonna del Divino Amore). The Virgin sits at left looking at the Christ child who sits on her lap and blesses a kneeling St John the ...