DETAILS
- Artist
- Bartolomeo Montagna
- Date
- 1479
- Medium
- Oil(?) on wood
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 24 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. (62.9 x 52.1 cm)
- Collection
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1909
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THE ARTIST
Bartolomeo Montagna
Bartolomeo Montagna, an Italian Renaissance painter, is renowned for his evocative Madonnas, often set against eccentric marble architecture.
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