The Gypsy Madonna is a panel painting of the Madonna and Child in oils of about 1510–11,[1] by Titian, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is a painting made for display in a home rather than a church.[2]
It is close to compositions by Titian's former master Giovanni Bellini, especially, when reversed, one of 1509 in the Detroit Institute of Arts, and has been seen as a challenge to the much older master, by taking on a characteristic compositional formula of his.[3] The style is much indebted to Giorgione, and it was often attributed to him in the earlier 20th century. This is especially so in the "harmonious fullness and slow gravity of form" of the figure of the Virgin, which uses a type of figure Titian did not repeat in later Madonnas.[4] The landscape is virtually identical to the left-most section of the background of the Dresden Venus, traditionally thought to have been begun by Giorgione, but with the landscape done after his death in 1510 by Titian.[5]
The right background is occupied with a cloth of honour, painted with careful attention to its folds (they were often stored folded up).[6] These were hung behind thrones, as in very many paintings of enthroned Madonnas, and here it implies that an unoccupied throne is out of sight to the right. The Bellini in Detroit uses the same device. The composition is therefore a half-way stage between the older more formal enthroned Madonnas and newer compositions with the Virgin and Child shown informally in a landscape setting. Madonnas by Bellini and his followers had for some time been showing small glimpses of landscape to the sides of the painting, usually cut off by a parapet lower down, and the formula here, using a horizontal "landscape" format, develops this.[7]
TheGypsyMadonna is a panel painting of theMadonna and Child in oils of about 1510–11, by Titian, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is...
on the Morosini Palace is said to have been one of Titian's earliest works. Others were the Bellini-esque so-called GypsyMadonna in Vienna, and the Visitation...
ISBN 0-340-83087-5 TheGypsyMadonna (2006) ISBN 0-340-83090-5 Sea of Lost Love (2007) ISBN 0-340-84046-3 The French Gardener (2008) ISBN 141654374-0 The Italian...
traditionally identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace. Work on the painting seems to...
The term Black Madonna or Black Virgin tends to refer to statues or paintings in Western Christendom of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus,...
hangs in the National Gallery in London. The other major paintings in the cycle are The Feast of the Gods, mostly by Giovanni Bellini, now in the National...
of the intended meaning of the painting, including the identity of the central figures, remain disputed. Two women, who appear to be modelled on the same...
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which hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The subject stands at three-quarter length, turned to the left, looking at the spectator. She...
at the same period as theMadonna of the Rabbit, theMadonna with Saint Catherine (Aldobrandini Madonna) in London, and the Presentation of the Virgin...
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Titian, now in the Uffizi in Florence alongside its pair, Portrait of Francesco Maria della Rovere, showing Eleonora's husband. It formed the prototype for...
in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and it is considered to be one of the collection's highlights. The pose of the Venus resembles the classical...
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