| Madonna and Child | |
| Artist: | Giovanni Bellini |
| Year: | late 1480s |
| Height Metric: | 88.9 |
| Width Metric: | 71.1 |
| Museum: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| City: | New York |
| Medium: | oil on panel |
| Accession: | 08.183.1 |
Madonna and Child is a late 1480s painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York[1] [2]
Unusually, the Madonna holds the viewer's attention with her gaze. The backdrop curtain is pulled slightly open to reveal a distant landscape showing a transition from barren hills to a verdant townscape, a metaphor for resurrection.