| Madonna with Sleeping Child | |
| Artist: | Andrea Mantegna |
| Year: | 1465-1470 |
| Medium: | glue-tempera on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 43 |
| Width Metric: | 32 |
| City: | Berlin |
| Museum: | Gemäldegalerie |
The Madonna with Sleeping Child is a glue-tempera on canvas painting measuring 43 cm by 32 cm. It was painted around 1465-1470 by Andrea Mantegna and is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.[1] [2]
Intended for private devotion, it dispenses with the two figures' usual haloes in favour of a more intimate, simple and tender approach. Mantegna draws on Donatello's motif of Mary's face touching the child, whilst they are both enveloped in a brocade mantle against a black background.
There is a dialogue about this painting in the novel Lampioon küßt Mädchen und kleine Birken by the German writer Manfred Hausmann.