The Virgin and Child with Saints

Andrea Previtali painted this Virgin and Child with Saints in 1504. Trained under Giovanni Bellini in Venice, Previtali returned to his native Bergamo and became the leading local painter. His devotional works transplant the warm atmospheric style of the Bellini workshop to the Bergamasque context The Virgin Mary occupied a central place in late medieval and Renaissance piety, venerated as intercessor and Queen of Heaven, her image produced in countless devotional objects for public and private

Oil on panel with rich Venetian-influenced coloring and atmospheric landscape background. Previtali's gentle figures and soft tonal transitions reflect his direct training under Giovanni Bellini.